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AMHERST COLLEGE 



THE CLASS 

OF 

Eighteen Hundred Eighty-Two 



Record 1882-1907 



PRINTED FOR THE CLASS 

JOHN P. CUSHING, Secretary 
JOHN ALBREE, Historian 

COMMITTEE 



NEW HAVEN 

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1907 



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THIS RECORD 

MAY PROPERLY BE INSCRIBED 

TO THE CLASS; 

FOR IT IS 

OF US, FOR US, BY US, TO US. 



With proper modesty it may be stated that : 

'82 was the first Sabrina class. 

'82 was the first Amherst class to have a Class Yell. 

'82 won the Gym prize twice. 

'82 declared a substantial dividend at graduation. 

'82 introduced tennis into Amherst College. 

'82 has " more men in public life than any other Amherst 
class." 

'82 has "more men of unusual distinction than any other 
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CHAPEL AND DORMITORIES. 



HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION 



The Freshman Class that entered Amherst College in the fall 
of 1878 is the subject of our story. This date was not so very 
far removed from the Panic of '73 or the so-called Crime of '76; 
yet our fathers evidently had passed through the trying days of 
'73 with money enough left to give their sons a start at Amherst, 
and had enough good sense to believe that the country was not 
going downhill as the result of political dissensions. If we are 
now permitted to pass judgment upon the Freshman group, we 
are forced to admit that it was an ungainly-looking lot. But 
appearances are often deceiving; and these same Freshmen have 
in many ways shown their ability and proven their qualities of 
leadership. 

We were admitted without so much talk as one hears nowa- 
days about "entrance conditions" ; our fathers each deposited 
a $100 bond as a guarantee that our bills would be paid ; we 
probably bought a lot of old furniture from Landsford Gates 



8 CLASS OF 1552. 

and had it carted to a barrack-like room for which we paid a 
dollar or two a week, and then hunted up a "club" where we paid 
probably $3.50 a week for board. The swells paid as much as 
five. The system of fraternity houses was then in its infancy. 
Alpha Delta Phi was in its old house; Psi Upsilon was burned 
out of its rooms in the block in 1879 and bought its present 
house; Delta Kappa Epsilon had rooms in Phoenix Block over 
Adam's Drug Store ; Delta Upsilon and Chi Phi members 
occupied rooms- in blocks near the Amherst House ; and Chi Psi, 
rooms in the bank building near the New London Railway 
station. 

But changes came as we were leaving Amherst. Chi Psi put 
up its fine house by the side of Psi Upsilon ; Torch and Crown 
had a house on Northampton Street; and Delta Kappa Epsilon 
and Delta Upsilon bought houses somewhat more distant from 
the College. The old dormitories were without many of the 
conveniences or decencies of modern life ; yet we got along in 
them very well and had a very good time. Later, when the "East 
College Gang" had become famous in song, a landscape artist 
deemed it best to remove the old building. There is probably 
no cause and effect in this. 

These were the rules under which we lived : 



Administrative Rules in Amherst College. 

The course of the College is arranged according to the best 
judgment of the Trustees and the Faculty, to secure for each 
student the best training for his subsequent life. To this end 
the following rules need to be observed : — 

1. The work assigned to the student should be suited to his 
capacity and be neither more nor less than will exercise all his 
powers. 

2. The student should be studious, making the utmost 
improvement of his time and talents in regularly and diligently 
doing what the College assigns him. 

3. As no student should be received as a member of a class, 
whose character is not good, or whose attainments are insuffi- 
cient for the work of the class, so no student should be 
continued in a class for which, either in deportment or in 
scholarship, he is unfitted. 



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4. As tliis unfitness should only be determined by the actual 
deficiencies of a student, a correct record should be kept of his 
attendance and work. Such recitations and reviews should he 
held during each term in the work assigned for the term, as 
shall give every student the opportunity to show fairly whether 
lie has sufficiently mastered the study to warrant his proceeding 
in the prescribed course of the class. If he has been present at 
nine-tenths of the exercises of his class in a given department 
of study, and if his attainment therein shall be satisfactory to 
his teacher, he shall be deemed qualified, without further exam- 
ination, to proceed with the work of the next term. If, however, 
he shall have failed of this attendance or attainment, he should 
forfeit his standing - in his class, unless he shall pass a special 
examination in the work of the term, the minuteness of which 
should be proportioned to the degree of his failure. 

5. These examinations, for which preparation should be 
made under the direction of a competent teacher, should be held 
at the beginning of the term following the failure. If a student 
is not then prepared to sustain the examination due in any given 
department of study, he is obviously unprepared to proceed with 
profit in the advancing study of that department, and should 
wait before attempting to do this until his examination therein 
shall be completely sustained. 

6. As religious worship is no less important than his study 
to a student, and as regular physical exercise is indispensable 
to sound health, any one absenting himself during any term 



To Mr. ^S^^ji^^^^ Class of '8JZ^ 




Your absences from Church to and including 





y amount to one = tenth of those 

, exercises for the current term 

E. (P. CROW ELL, 

(Dean of the. Faculty. 



Amherst College, fi^£ ^&( 1882. 



A REMINDER OF THE VACCINATION SCARE. 



IO CLASS OF l882. 

from one-tenth of the daily religious services of the College, 
or the sabbath services, or the stated exercises in the gymnasium, 
unless specially excused therefor by the Dean or the Faculty, 
should be excluded from the further privilege of the College. 

7. The College is divided into six sections : — The section of 
English; the section of Ancient Languages; the section of 
Modern Languages; the section of Mathematics; the section 
of Natural Science; and the section of Philosophy. Grade of 
scholarship in each of these sections is marked on a scale of 5. 

8. Every student who has completed his work in each section 
may be admitted to the degree of B. A., and receive a diploma 
in testimony of the same. If his average scholarship shall be 
represented by the number 2, his diploma may be given rite; 
if by 3, cum laude ; if by 4, magna cum laude; and if by 5, 
summa cum laude. Special excellence in any department, or 
section, also may be recognized in the diploma. No student 
should be entitled to a diploma whose work in any section is 
incomplete. Such student, however, may receive a certificate 
of his actual attainments. 



NOTICE. 



1. The prayer-bills are regularly posted in the gymnasium, 
and all mistakes in the marks upon them should be reported 
within one week from the date of posting. 

2. Students excused to attend other churches for the College 
year should report respecting their church attendance at the 
end of each month. If no report is made, absence-marks for 
the month will be entered on the record. 

3. Applications for occasional excuses to attend other 
churches, in town or out of town, should be made beforehand; 
and all excuses for church absences should be offered within one 
week after such absences. 

4. Absences from town for the Sunday next preceding or 

following a holiday, or the last Sunday of the term, are not 

excused. 

E. P. Crowell, 

Dean of the Faculty. 

Amherst College, January 5, 1882. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. II 



To Mr. -^^^^^C^^z Class of '8^ 




• Your absences from Gymnasium to and including 
..^yl^C^ir^ .HHinrnmf t\onc = tenth of those 



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exercises for the current term. 



E. (P. CROW ELL, 

(Dean of the Faculty. 



Amherst College )CL^<<°^i<st^3 1882. 



MORE TROUBLE. 



Chapel at 7.55, two services on Sunday, with fairly long- 
sermons, too, Latin, Greek, and Mathematics, with Old Doc's 
Lectures to Freshmen, filled up our "Official" program. The 
electives were Hazing, Toying with Sahrina, Nocturnal Preda- 
tory Expeditions, in which some of us showed signal aptitude. 

We may have had our troubles in Latin and Greek, hippie or 
otherwise ; we may have improvised in French or have been 
fired into the dead-beat division in Chemistry, there was one man 
and one place that always brought gladness to us ; and the man 
was "Doc," and the place was the Gym. As we advanced in 
later years in Science, Philology, History and Philosophy, and 
were more or less attracted by the charms of some particular 
study, we never quite forgot our first love and we will always 
hold in memory a warm place for "Old Doc," our "guide, philoso- 
pher, and friend." We have always stood together as a class. 
The Gym. started us aright ; Sabrina helped us ; and the Cre- 
mation made a class row impossible. In distress we have stood 
together as well as in pleasure. Witness the "dead-beats" and 
others filing by night to the home of the distinguished professor, 
bearing as a votive offering a silver cup for the latest addition 
to his family. The boys all passed their exams.; and many of 
them have taken advanced standing (Ph.D.'s for instance) in 
Chemistry. 



CLASS OF l882. 



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A FEW WORDS FROM "OLD DOC." 

I am afraid we bothered the authorities 
some with our "cuts" and other delinquencies. 
When invited to call upon the President, he 
met us singly and alone and began thus: 
"John, I am deeply grieved — ." Our experi- 
ments in physics and chemistry were as 
interesting as those of the professors. We 
remember the time when Professor H. mixed 
up some H and O and to test our powers of 
prof, harris observation, gave X a lighted stick and told 

him to touch the soap-bubbly mass with it. After the explosion 
came the question, "Wal, d'ye hear anything?" We also recall the 
time when Professor H., to show an inverted image on the screen, 
let the light come through the window-lens, requesting some 
one of us to go outside and walk along the path that we might 
see the image on the screen with heels in the air. An athlete 
volunteered; judge the Professor's astonishment and dismay 
when Chase walked across the field right side up. He had 
walked on his hands ! 

An experience in the French class deserves a place. How 
many of us recall the time that Fletcher erased M.'s verbal 
endings of the French verb he had written on the board for us 
to copy? You remember M. insisted that the recitations should 
be conducted in the language. After he had explained at length 
in French with what care he had performed his work, and that, 




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too, for our sakes, he told Fletcher to go to the board. Now, 
Fletcher's knowledge of French, like that of some of the rest 
of ns, was phenomenal. Fletcher sat still and simply said, "Oui, 
monsieur; oui, monsieur." M. again said, "Allez dans le 
planche noir"(or something like that) — and Fletcher replied 
with one of his blandest tones, "Oui, monsieur; oui, monsieur"; 
when Wing came to the rescue, and whispered so that all could 
hear, "Fie says for you to go to the blackboard." "Oh, yes, 
yes," replied Fletcher; and pulling his long lankiness together, 
to the board he went, and there awaited further instructions. 
M. proceeded to repeat all he had said, adding, "Monsieur Proc- 
tor will come to this end of the board so as not to endanger the 
writing"; and Fletcher replied, "Oui, monsieur; oui, monsieur"; 
and proceeded to erase about one third of M.'s painstaking work. 
M. colored up and expressed his displeasure, and once more 
repeated from the beginning, for Monsieur Proctor's benefit, all 
that he had said, and then told him to proceed ; when faithful 
Johnny whispered, "Rub out some more." Fletcher, true to his 
prompter, proceeded to rub out about half of what was left, 
when M., rising from his chair, said a few more things not as 
complimentary as some other things he might have said, and 
then in his disgruntlement very sharply (I wish I could remem- 
ber the French of it) told him to go ahead. Again Fletcher 
turned to his helper, and Johnny whispered, "Finish the job"; 
and Fletcher, smiling sweetly at M., replied, "Oui, monsieur; 
oui, monsieur," and finished the job. By this time M. was beside 
himself with rage, and rushing down and shaking his index 
finger in Fletcher's face, said, "Sit down, Monsieur Proctor, sit 
down. You have no intelligence; you are one fool." He said 
this in French, and poor Fletcher, realizing that something was 
eating at M.'s vitals, with most beseeching look and in a whisper 
of anguish, asked Johnny, "What is he saying?" Johnny replied, 
"He says, sit down, you fool ; you have no intelligence" ; and 
Fletcher once more meekly said, "Oui monsieur ; oui 
monsieur." It was one of the funniest things that happened in 
all our college course of which I have any remembrance. 

During our first two years interest centered in the Kellogg 
Prize Speaking Contest. In the Freshman year, our Fifteen 
was made up as follows : Bliss, Cushman, Dyer, Fisher, Hall, 
J. H. Hobbs, Hussey, Mills, Perry, Proctor, Savage, Thayer, 
Washburn, Whitehead, Williams. The Five were Dyer, Hussey, 
Proctor, Washburn and Whitehead. Hussey won the prize with 



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CLASS OF l882. 



Howell's "The Pilot's Story." In Sophomore year the Fifteen 
were : Blanchard, Bliss, Ely, Fisher, F. W. Greene, Hale, Hall, 
Hobbs, Mills, Partridge, R. C. Smith, Thayer, Ufford and Wil- 
liams. The Five were Fisher, Hall, Mills, Partridge and Wil- 
liams. Williams won the prize with Robertson's "Honor." 

We closed our Sophomore year and celebrated the half-way 
mark in our college course with a banquet. The toast list 
follows : 

SOPHOMORE CLASS SUPPER. 
At Crocker House, New London, June 25, '80. 
H. A. Tucker, ..... Toast-master. 

F. L. Nason, ..... Poet. 

J. W. Bixler, ..... Class Historian. 

COMMITTEE. 

E. P. Draper, G. R. Fisher, 

S. A. Howard, C. E. O. Nichols, 

A. G. Rolfe, W. F. Stearns, 

W. S. Ufford, J. C. Williams. 



TOASTS. 

"A toast ! A toast ! Stand up and three times three." 
Amherst, . . . . . . J. P. Whitehead. 



The Fiery Steed, 
The Boarding House, 
Sabrina, . 



E. E. Aldrich. 

F. Whiting. 
R. C. Smith. 



"Sabrina fair, listen and appear to us." 



music. 
R. C. Smith, G. A. Hall, 

G. V. S. Camp, J. H. Hobbs. 



"Rushes and Flunks," 
"The Alchemists," 
"Le Frangais," . 
"Mute Tintinabula," 



A. G. Rolfe. 
W. L. Savage. 
G. V. S. Camp. 
J. H. Hobbs. 



MUSIC : QUARTETTE. 



'Walker Hall Deities," 
'Rhetoricals," 
'The Ladies," 
Eighty-two," 



H. S. Bliss. 

F. D. Proctor. 

G. A. Hall. 

L. H. Thayer. 



In musical affairs we made a brave showing ; and although we 
did not have an '81 quartette, we had an Obelisk quartette; and 
once we made an appearance in Pelham, where one of our fea- 
tures was Draper's clog, accompanied by Camp upon a melodeon. 



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An old program shows that the Glee Club on February 17, 
1882, gave a performance in Three Rivers. Camp was the 
leader; Hall was one of the second tenors. The program fol- 
lows : , 

1. "Hark, the Merry Drum" Kurgh. 

2. College Songs, 

"Nellie," 

"Aggie Farm." 

3. Tree in the Ground. 

4. Quartette. 

Messrs. Kendall, French, Spafford. Wadsworth. 

5. "Cackle, Cackle." 

Solo by Mr. Spafford. 

6. Octette : "Britannia." 

INTERMISSION. 

1. "Tar's Song" Hatton. 

2. College Songs, 

"Lowlands," 
"Few Days." 

3. Octette : "Mary's Lamb" Zaclitinaiiu. 

Solo by Mr. Hall. 

4. "Spring Delights" Midler. 

5. "Gee, Whoa, Dobbin." 

Solo by Mr. Hall. 

6. "Black Brigade." 

Solo by Mr. French. 

7. Medley. 

Our musical tastes were given an uplift when '81 brought out 
"Romeo and Juliet." For further cultivation we had the Spaul- 
ding Bell Ringers: and in Holyoke we heard "Fatinitza" (with 
H. E. Dixey in a minor part), Harrigan and Hart in their well- 
known productions, "Billee Taylor," "Hiawatha," and "Patience" 
(which led Judd to appear as Bunthorne in our Mock Gym.) ; 
and for the theatre we had as local offerings, — "The Electrical 
Doll," "Uncle Tom's Cabin," "Widow Bedott," "Our Boys," 
"Hazel Kirke" : and in Holyoke we saw Kate Claxton in "The 
Two Orphans," Aldrich and Parsloe in "My Partner," Willie 
Edouin in "Dreams" (J. T. Powers had a minor part), Maude 
Forrester in "Mazeppa," W- J. Florence in "The Mighty Dollar," 
McKee Rankin in " '49," and Mary Anderson in "Ingomar." 
Occasionally Georgie Cayvan favored us with readings. Our 
own Mock Gym. Exhibition was not altogether musical or the- 
atrical ; but the specialties gave a good evening's entertainment. 



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CLASS OF l882. 



In athletics '82 always took a prominent part. Probably our 
best show was given during '81 's Commencement week, when 
we went through our exercises with Ufford as Captain and Camp 
as Pianist. This was followed by the Heavy Gymnastic Exer- 
cises, in which the following took part : — Savage, Arnd, Burt, 
Howland, Watters, and Whiting. But it was on February 12, 
1 88 1, that we won the Gym. prize for the second time and had 
our numerals embroidered again upon the Captain's sash. On 
that same day in the old Gym. '82 captured six out of eight 
events, our principal performers being noted as follows : — 



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HEAVY GYMNASTS, '82. 

Ten Pins i Stearns 2 Ufford 

Horizontal Bar 1 Savage 

Rack Bars 1 Howland 

Parallel Bars 1 Howland 

Swinging Rings 1 Savage 2 Watters 

Tumbling 1 Savage 2 Watters 



At the Field Meet, October 13, 1880, members of our class 
took these honors : — 

Potato Race 1 Savage Time, 2 min. 57 sec. 

Hammer Throw 1 Nason Dist, 57 ft. 3 in. 

(In the following year Nason threw 73 feet.) 



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Go-as-you-plcase, 5 miles. 1 Howland 32 min. 06^ sec. 

Kicking Football 1 Tucker 154 ft. 10 in. 

Broad Jump 1 Watters 17 ft. 3 in. 

Throwing Ball 2 Stoddard 207 ft. 

Mile Run 1 Howland 5 min. 329^ sec. 

Wheelbarrow Race 1 Mills, 2 Savage 12 sec. 

Sack Race 1 Savage, 2 Watters .. 26^ sec. 

100- Yard Dash 2 Mills 11 sec. 

( In the following year Mills won in 11 sec.) 

Bicycle Race 1 Blatchford 2 min. 09 sec. 

100- Yard Dash Backwards 2 Draper 16^4 sec. 

Fat Man's Race 2 Nason 1 min. 7 sec. 

100- Yard Hurdle 2 Mills 16 sec. 




COLLEGE BICYCLE TEAM. 



Among- our other entries were: — -Rolfe, Bush, and Loomis in 
the Potato Race ; Hale in the Mile Walk ; Whitehead in the 
Hammer Throw ; Rolfe, Loomis, and Cowan in the Five 
Mile ; Arnd in the Football Kick ; Nason in the Broad Jump ; 
Rouse in the Standing - Broad Jump ; Howland and Bush in the 
Half Mile; Bush and Whiting in the Ball Throw; Howard and 
Loomis in the Mile Run ; Stoddard and Reed, Harvey and 
Cushing, Rouse and W. S. Greene, Washburn and Rolfe, Savage 



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and Whiting in the Three-legged Race ; Bush, Hayward, Allen, 
Rouse, W. S. Greene, Rolfe, Burt, and Williams in the Sack 
Race; Draper, R. C. Smith, and Hall in the 100-yards; Burt, 
Mills, Loomis, Savage, and Nason in the 100-yards Backwards; 
Mills, Burt, Rouse, and Rowland in the Quarter Mile; Nason 
and R. C. Smith in the Hurdles. This list gives one a fair idea 
of our athletic proclivities, taking in as it does nearly all the 
class. A marked improvement has been made in athletic records 




COLLEGE BASEBALL TEAM. 



in twenty-five years, yet the point to be considered is that we 
were actually engaged in these various events. We were busy 
at the game, and had not degenerated into a lot of megaphonic 
rooters. 

In football we held our own among the smaller college's. 
Even if Chase, Arnd, Mills, and Whiting and their colleagues 
did their best, they could not win from Yale ; for Yale had at 
that time, and has had ever since, a leader in college sports, 
Walter Camp. 



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Sa.tizrd.a.y, JSTov. 5, 1881. 

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YALE. 



AMHERST. 

RUSHERS. 

CHASE,* ARND, SAWYER, 

WHITING, SCARBOROUGH, 

QUARTER-BACK. 

HARRIS. 

HALF BACKS. 



PRATT, 
MILLS. 



KIMBALL. 



HUNT. 



BACK. 

BARKER. 



YALE. 



RUSHERS. 

KNAPP, FARWELL, TOMPKINS, HULL, 

STORRS, HEBARD, BECK. 

QUARTER-BACK. 

BADGER. 

HALF BACKS. 

BENEDICT, RICHARDS. 

BACK. 

BACON. 

SCORE: YALE 2 GOALS, <7 TOUCHDOWNS: AMHERST, 0. 

* Substitutes : Cahoun for Chase, Camp for Benedict. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 



In baseball we had many a famous victory; and Holyoke, 
Hamp, and Amherst have tried in vain to sleep while we were 
doing a little celebrating. 

In the spring of 1881 the following games were played: 



.May 4 Amherst-Harvard 0-15 

7 Harvard-Dartmouth 13-II 

7 Princeton- Yale 5- 6 

9 Princeton-Dartmouth 20- 3 

9 Harvard-Brown 10- 6 

11 Brown-Amherst 11-13 

12 Dartmouth-Harvard 4-10 
14 Yale-Harvard 9-14 
14 Dartmouth-Brown 9- 6 

17 Brown-Harvard 9- 6 

18 Amherst-Dartmouth 10-11 

20 Harvard-Princeton 4- 1 

21 Yale-Dartmouth 3- 6 
23 Brown-Dartmouth 5- 2 
25 Harvard-Amherst 2- 7 



May 28 Brown-Princeton 5- 3 

28 Harvard-Yale 5- 8 

30 Brown-Yale 2- 5 

31 Amherst-Princeton 6-13 
June i Amherst-Brown 4-10 

1 Yale-Princeton 6- 7 

4 Princeton-Brown 8- 4 

6 Princeton-Harvard 6- 5 

7 Dartmouth-Amherst 6- 3 

8 Princeton-Amherst 4- 9 
8 Dartmouth- Yale 5-15 

10 Dartmouth-Princeton 5- 6 

10 Amherst- Yale 9-19 

15 Yale-Brown 19- 4 



in the spring of 1882 the following games were played 



May 6 Brown-Harvard 

8 Brown-Dartmouth 
10 Brown-Yale 
10 Amherst-Dartmouth 
13 Yale-Harvard 
13 Princeton-Amherst 
15 Princeton-Dartmouth 

17 Dartmouth-Harvard 

18 Brown-Dartmouth 

19 Princeton-Harvard 

20 Brown- Yale 

23 Dartmouth-Harvard 

23 Princeton-Amherst 

24 Amherst-Yale 

27 Princeton-Brown 



6-7 


May 27 


Yale-Harvard 


7-10 


12- 9 


29 


Amherst-Harvard 


8-19 


2- 4 


30 


Yale-Princeton 


15-8 


7-23 


30 


Amherst-Dartmouth 


9- 7 


11- 6 


June 1 


Princeton-Dartmouth 


8- 2 


7-8 


3 


Princeton-Harvard 


9- 4 


6-4 


3 


Brown-Amherst 


3- 4 


11- 8 


3 


Dartmouth-Yale 


4- 5 


22-13 


6 


Princeton-Brown 


10- 8 


9- 4 


9 


Amherst-Harvard 


0-10 


9-8 


10 


Dartmouth-Yale 


3- 9 


16- 8 


10 


Amherst-Brown 


10- 9 


16-4 


12 


Brown-Harvard 


13-17 


5-i3 


17 


Yale-Amherst 


28- 8 


9-15 


24 


Yale-Princeton 


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CLASS OF 1882. 



TWO FAMOUS VICTORIES 



The Amherst-Harvard Game. 

Amherst, May 25. — The Harvard 
nine was defeated by the Amhersts, 
yesterday, at Amherst. The Har- 
vards were unable to hit Gould to 
any advantage, while Amherst won 
by hitting Folsom hard, and through 
Harvard's damaging errors in the 
fifth and sixth innings. The catching 
of Woodward was fine, and the field- 
ing of Arnd, Crittenden and Coolidge 
excellent. The score : 

AMHERSTS. 

AB R IB TB PO A E 

Chase, s.s 5 o o o 1 3 2 

Woodward, c. . . 4 1 2 2 10 o 1 

Savage, r.f 41 1 1000 

Gould, p 4 1 o 1 10 1 

Arnd, l.f 4 o o 2 1 

Gardner, 2b. ... 4 1 2 2 3 1 o 

Buffum, c.f. ... 4 1 1 1 o o 1 

Pratt, ib 4 1 1 1 8 1 

Crittenden, 3b. . 4 1 o o 2 5 5 

Totals 37 7 7 7 27 20 \\ 

HARVARDS. 

AB R IB TB PO A E 

Coolidge, 2b. ... 4 1 5 2 1 
Olmstead, l.f. ..5000200 

Nichols, c 5 o 1 1 7 2 1 

Baker, s.s 5 1 1 I 1 1 

Edwards, r.f. ..5000103 

Folsom, p 4 o 1 1 o 7 1 

Hall, c.f 4 o 2 2 4 o 1 

Burt, ib 4 o o 8 1 1 

Snow, 3b 4 o o o o 1 o 

Totals 40 2 5 5 27 14 9 

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Amhersts 10004200 o — 7 

Harvards o 1 000000 1 — 2 

Umpire — Donovan. First base on 
errors — Amhersts 6, Harvards 9 ; 
left on bases — Amhersts 2, Harvards 
4; passed balls — Nichols 2, Wood- 
ward 1 ; bases on called balls — Har- 
vards 1 ; struck out — Amhersts 4, 
Harvards 7 ; double play — Coolidge 
and Burt. Time of game — 1 h. 55 m. 

Amhersts 9— Princetons 4. 

(Special Despatch to the Boston Herald.) 

Amherst, June 8, 1881. — The Prince- 
tons came here to-day expecting a 
"snap," but were easily beaten by the 
Amhersts, who outplayed them in 
every way and maintained their lead 



from the start. Gould and Critten- 
den alternated as pitchers, and both 
proved effective and received splen- 
did support. Amherst batted Archer 
hard, but could only earn one run. 
Loney, who injured Gardner at 
Princeton, May 31, was badly "guyed" 
by the audience, and he got rattled 
and offered to fight the grand stand 
a la Ferguson at Detroit. Donovan's 
umpiring was very satisfactory, and 
a great improvement on ,that of 
yesterday. Woodward and Winton 
played finely, while Chase led at the 
bat. The score : 



Chase, s.s. . . . 
Woodward, c. 
Gould, p.3b. . 
Savage, r.f. .. 

Arnd, l.f 

Taylor, 2b. . . 

Pratt, ib 

Buffum, c.f. . 
Crittenden, 3b. p 



AMHERSTS. 

AB R IB TB PO A E 
5 I 2 3 I I 



4 o 

5 1 



7 

1 

100 

200 

230 

900 



o o 1 
o 1 1 3 4 o 



Totals ..42 9 11 13 27 16 2 

PRINCETONS. 

AB R IB TB PO A E 

Duffield, r.f. . . . 4 1 2 2 2 1 o 

Harris, l.f 4 o o 2 o 

Loney, 2b 3 o o o 1 2 3 

McCune, c.f. ...40 2 2 1 o 2 

Schenck, c 4 o o o 5 2 3 

Harlan, 3b 4 o 1 1 2 1 1 

Winton, ib. . . . 4 2 2 2 14 o 1 

Archer, p 4 o o o o 9 o 

Rafferty, s.s. ...41 1 1020 



Totals 35 4 8 8 27 17 10 

Innings 123456789 

Amhersts 1 1 102200 2 — 9 

Princetons .... 00102100 o — 4 

Earned run — Amhersts 1 ; two- 
base hits — Chase, Pratt ; first base on 
balls — Arnd, Savage, Loney ; first 
base on errors — Amhersts 5, Prince- 
tons 2; struck out — Amhersts 6, 
Princetons 6; balls called — Gould 56, 
Crittenden 37, Archer 112; strikes 
called — Gould 20, Crittenden 35, 
Archer 21 ; left on bases — Amhersts 
8, Princetons 5 ; passed balls — Wood- 
ward 2, Schenck 1 ; wild pitch — 
Crittenden 1. Time— 2 h. 45 min. 
Umpire — Donovan of Boston. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 



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Perhaps our principal evening diversion was found in whist; 
billiards was popular with a few. The climax of our gaming 
was the 250-point whist game that ran through several evenings, 
with the losers elected to put up a dinner at Frank's. This word 
"Frank's" recalls many a pleasant evening. Frank Wood was 
a born caterer and a good friend to the students. It may have 



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been his geniality or the poor food at our clubs that made our 
bills at his place reach astonishing figures. But we always got 
our money's worth at these evening repasts, and we will retain 
a warm feeling for a man who understood boys. 



We were all more or less interested in the Anti-V, and gave 
good support to old Alexandria and Athenae. Witness the 
great Social Union debate on December 14, 1881, in College 
Hall, when Allen, Bixler, and Thayer appeared for Alexandria, 
and Partridge, Ufford, and Whitehead for Athenae. The ques- 
tion was, "Resolved: — That the present condition of the public 
mind, in the United States, is favorable to the cultivation of 
Oratory." History records that Partridge took the first prize, 



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and Bixler the second. Again witness the great debate of the 
Hitchcock Society of Inquiry, October 22, 1880, when Hastings 
and Watters took opposite sides of the question: "Resolved: — 
That Monasticism has been a benefit to the world." 

We all proclaimed our Olio to be the best ever published, 
and judging from the supper the editors gave themselves at 
Round Hill, June 9, 1881, they must have made money. The 
menu included Green Turtle Soup, Kennebec Salmon, Tender- 
loin of Beef with Mushrooms, Spring Chicken, Saute of Reed 




THE '82 OLIO BOARD. 



Birds, Blue Point Oysters Fried in Crumbs, Cream Fritters, 
Lobster Salad, Chicken Salad, and a lot of things for dessert. 



From the photographs printed in this book one may note 
that the moustache and the "side-burns" were much affected ; 
that we had no extravagant ideas about the trim of hair; that 
the hats worn then were "dinky" ; that black-braided cutaways, 
trousers full at the bottom, cloth-top button shoes, low turn- 
down collars, flat ties, and walking sticks appear to be the 
vogue. In baseball, the catcher's glove appears to be very 
moderate in size ; and there are no other "mitts" shown. In 



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football, there are absolutely none of the pads, leather head- 
gear, and rubber nose-guards so common to-day. The men 
appear to be ready for the "soccer" or association game. We 
note with a smile the old high-wheel bicycles ; and we mark 
with interest the tennis racquet. For be it known that '82 
introduced lawn tennis to Amherst, when Cotton Smith, in our 
Sophomore year, brought a tennis racquet to College. 

A comparison of class banquet menus shoj\ s that there has 
not been much change in this regard in twenty-five years. It is 




CLASS TENNIS GROUP. 



a matter of evidence that well-known hotels in western Massa- 
chusetts still serve the specialties that made them famous — 
custard pie and waffles. 

A glance at the Senior Promenade program shows that we 
have to-day lost many of our best dances. The dance programs 
now-a-days are made up simply of waltzes and two-steps, — to 
my mind a degeneration from former standards. And it is 
interesting to note that this tendency towards the waltz and two- 
step began shortly after we left College. At our triennial '85 



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had upon its promenade program fourteen waltzes out of twenty 
dances; three years before we had but five out of twenty. 

We were the first Amherst class to have a Class yell ; and 
it is generally understood that Hall was the author. It's a simple 
affair, as compared with modern yells : 

Yah — ee — Yah. 
Yah — e e — Yah . 
Yah — ee — Yah. 
Eighty-two ! 

On the third page of our Commencement program appeared 
the honor list of the Class. It is a pleasure to note that the 
leaders of twenty-five years ago are the leaders to-day. But 




OUR MONITORS. 



if one were to study the class list carefully, he would find that 
the whirligig of time has made many changes in the marks. A 
man is not kept down in life for misspelling a word or for 
neglecting one subject that he may give his heart and soul to 
another. And it is interesting to note that some of the men who 
were not mentioned for honors have overtaken their fellows 



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of a quarter century ago. They certainly hold their own with 
their honored classmates in Business; they are not excelled in 
Medicine; they lead in History, Literature, and Mining. The 
honor men lead in Theology, Law, and Teaching. 





PROF. CHARLIE. 





THE COLLEGE CHURCH. 



OUR COMMENCEMENT 



Along towards the close of our Senior year we were made 
aware of the fact that Commencement was actually coming by 
the following notice which appeared in the Student. 



DEPARTMENT APPOINTMENTS. 

The six departments into which the College curriculum is 
divided, namely, Philosophy and History, Mathematics, English 
Literature, Natural Sciences, Ancient Languages, and Modern 
Languages, are each represented on the College stage at Com- 
mencement by one speaker. At the close of the winter term 
each of these departments regularly appoints several men, such 
as have attained the highest proficiency in their respective 
branches, who are thus permitted to compete, by writing theses, 
for the final Commencement appointments. Following are the 
names of those appointed this year by the several departments : — 

Philosophy and History: J. W. Bixler, F. W. Greene. E. D. 
Hale, F. D. Hastings, C. S. Mills, F. C. Partridge. 



3° CLASS OF 1882. 

Mathematics: C. P. Hunt, F. C. Partridge, J. H. Perry, 

F. T. Rouse, F. N. Wier. 

English Literature: J. W. Bixler, H. G. Blake, L. H. 
Thayer, W. S. Ufford, P. M. Watters. 

Natural Sciences: S. A. Howard, J. H. Lovell, J. H. Perry, 
W. S. Ufford, J. F. Wing. 

Ancient Languages: H. G. Blake, H. S. Bliss, A. W. Hitch- 
cock, Berwick Manning, A. G. Rolfe. 

Modern Languages: E. H. Burt, H. W. Matthews, W. H. 
Thompson, G. H. Washburn. 

The sixty-first Commencement of Amherst College was 
ushered in on Sunday, June 25, 1882. In the College Church 
at 10:45 A - M - the Baccalaureate sermon was preached by the 
President. In College Hall at 8 o'clock p. m., an address was 
delivered by Rev. J. T. Duryea, D.D., of Boston, before the 
Hitchcock Society of Religious Inquiry. Monday, Hyde Prize 
Exhibition in College Hall at 3 130 o'clock p. m. 

G. H. Washburn Was He a True Prophet? 

J. W. Bixler Garfield's Legacy. 

C S. Mills Ulrich Zwingle. 

F. A. Bancroft The Fanatic in History. 

H. S. Bliss Edmund Burke and the American Colonies. 

W. S. Ufford Edmund Burke and the French Revolution. 

The Hyde Prize was awarded to F. A. Bancroft. 

On Alonday evening occurred the Kellogg Prize Speaking, 
participated in by members of the Freshman and Sophomore 
Classes. 

On Tuesday morning at 8.30, in the Barrett Gymnasium, came 
the Physical Exercises by the Junior Class. This was followed 
at 9.30 o'clock in College Church by a Sacred Concert given 
by the Amherst College Glee Club under the direction of Pro- 
fessor Zuchtmann. At the Class Day Exercises the music was 
furnished by the Cadet Band of Boston. L. H. Thayer was 
orator. F. L. Nason, poet, and L. S. Judd, odist, at the Ivy 
Exercises: J. W. Bixler was Class Orator and H. S. Blake, 
Class Poet; A. G. Rolfe was Grove Orator, and Fred Whiting 
was Grove Poet. In the evening the College Glee Club, assisted 
by Miss Emma Dearborn, soprano, and the Bernhard Listemann 
Concert Company, gave a concert in College Hall. 

The program for Commencement is given : 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 3 1 



SIXTY-FIRST 



COMMENCEMENT 



■OF- 



AMHERST COLLEGE, 



WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 1882. 



32 



CLASS OF l882. 



Order of Exercises. 



{Music. 
PRAYER BY THE PRESIDENT. 

1. ^PHILOSOPHY. 

Frank C. Partridge, - - Bernard and Abelard. 

2. MATHEMATICS. 

Fred N. Wier, - - Ancient and Modern Astronomy. 

3. ENGLISFI. 

Roland C. Smith, - The Development of Wit and Humor. 

{Music. 

4. NATURAL SCIENCE. 

Walter S. Ufford, - - - Darwin and Darwinism. 

5. ANCIENT LANGUAGES. 

Hosea G. Blake, - Classical Culture. 

6. MODERN LANGUAGES. 

George H. Washburn, - Voltaire and the French Revolution. 

{Music. 
CONFERRING OF DEGREES. 



*The College is divided into six sections: — The section of English; the section 
of Ancient Languages; the section of Modern Languages; the section of Mathema- 
tics; the section of Natural Science; and the section of Philosophy. Each of these 
sections selects from two to five of its best scholars to write orations. From among 
these, each section chooses one to represent it, and the writers thus chosen appear 
as speakers at Commencement. 

The Bond Prize was awarded to R. C. Smith. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 



33 



Grades of Scholarship. 



ENGLISH ORATION. 
F. C. Partridge. 



H. S. Bliss, 



CLASSICAL ORATIONS. 
J. H. Perry. 



A. G. Rolfe. 



PHILOSOPHICAL ORATION. 
J. W. Bixler. 

SCIENTIFIC ORATION. 
E. D. Hale. 



H. G. Blake, 
F. D. Hastings, 
J. H. Lovell, 



FIRST CLASS ORATIONS. 



C. S. Mills, 
W. D. Smith, 
A. W. Stanford, 



W. H. Thompson, 
L. W. Tuck, 
P. M. Waiters. 



SECOND CLASS ORATIONS. 



E. H. Burt, 
A. W. Hitchcock, 
S. A. Howard, 
C. P. Hunt, 



E. H. Martin, 

H. W. Matthews, 
G. W. Reed, 

F. T. Rouse, 



E. W. Stoddard, 
L. H. Thayer, 
W. S. Ufford, 
G. H. Washburn. 



F. R. Allen, 
A. N. Bush, 



THIRD CLASS ORATIONS. 



G. N. Cowan, 
F. W. Greene, 
F. N. Wier, 



T. LI. Knapp, 
B. Manning, 
J. C. Williams. 



34 CLASS OF l882. 

CANDIDATES FOR THE DEGREE OF A.B. 



Aldrich, Edward Emory Worcester. 

Allen, Franklin Roswell Prescott. 

Arnd, Fred, jr Bath, N. Y. 

Bancroft, Frederic Austin Galesburg, III. 

Bellows, George Elihu Galesburg, III. 

Bixler, James Wilson Hanover, Pa. 

Blake, Hosea Gordon Amherst. 

Blatchford, Paul ' Chicago, III. 

Bliss, Howard Sweetser Beyrout, Syria. 

Burt, Enoch Hale Sunderland. 

Bush, Asahel Nesmith Salem, Or. 

Camp, George Van Santvoord Watertown, N . Y. 

Cowan, George Nesbitt Stamford, N. Y. 

Cushing, John Pearsons Boston. 

Draper, Edward Parrish Canandaigua, N. Y. 

Ely, Frederick William Lowell. 

Greene, Frederic William Amherst. 

Greene, William Storrs Lowell. 

Hale, Edson Dwinell Stowe, Vt. 

Hall, George Atwater Chicago, III. 

Harvey, Donald Calais, Me. 

Hastings, Frank Dickinson Northampton. 

Hayward, John Quincy Boxboro'. 

Hitchcock, Albert Wellman Kalamazoo, Mich. 

Hobbs, John Howard Amherst. 

Howard, Samuel Anton Warsaw, N. Y. 

Howland, Henry Martyn Jaffna, Ceylon. 

Hunt, Charles Phillips Worcester. 

Knapp, James Herbert Franklin. 

Lawrence, George Oliver Crocker Newton Centre. 

Loomis, Charles W Charlestown, O. 

Lovell, John Harvey Waldoboro' , Me. 

Lyman, George William Amherst. 

Manning, Berwick Boston. 

Martin, Edward Homer Milton, Vt. 

Matthews, Henry Winfield Chelsea. 

Mills, Charles Smith Andover. 

Nason, Frank Louis Sutherland Falls, Vt. 

Partridge, Frank Charles East Middlebury, Vt. 

Perry, Joseph Hartshorn Worcester. 

Reed, George Waldo Springfield. 

Richardson, Fred Brainard Hardwick. 

Rolf e, Alfred Grosvenor Ayer. 

Rouse, Frederick Thomas West Winsted, Ct. 

Savage, Watson Lewis Cromwell, Ct. 

Smith, Roland Cotton New York City. 

Smith, William Day Amherst. 

Stanford, Arthur Willis Lowell. 

Stearns, William Foster Boston. 

Stoddard, Eugene Warren Milford. 

Thayer, Lucius Harrison West field. 

Thompson, William Haven Sudbury. 

Tuck, Lorenzo Wadsworth South Weymouth. 

Tucker, Herbert Ames Boston. 

Ufford, Walter Shepard Boston. 

Washburn, George Hamlin Constantinople, Turkey. 

Watters, Philip Melancthon New York City. 

Whitehead, Jacob Paisley Hillsboro', III. 

Whiting, Fred Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Wier, Fred Newton Lowell. 

Williams, John Camp Utica, N. Y. 

Wing, John Franklin Dartmouth. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 35 

At the Promenade Concert in the evening the following- order 
of dances was followed: 

Overture, "Aurora" Schleppergrell 

1. Waltz, "Ball Promesseu" Strauss. 

2. Quadrille, "El Dorado" Rowell. 

3. Galop, "Up and Away" Budik. 

4. Lanciers, "Brunette" \ Rowell. 

5. Waltz, "La Charmantc" U'aldteufel. 

(>. Polka, "Beau Monde" Faust. 

7. Waltz Quadrili.k, "Sara" Lamothe. 

8. Waltz, "Carnevals" Strauss. 

9. Quadrille, "Expectation" Rollinson. 

10. Racquet, "The Club Galop" 

1 1. Mazourka, "One Heart, One Soul" Strauss. 

12. Galop, "Tally Ho" Markstein. 

13. College Lanciers, "New England" Rollinson. 

14. Waltz, "To Thee" Waldteufel. 

15. Polka, "Embrocation" Budik. 

16. Quadrille, "Burmeister" Wynkc. 

17. Waltz, "Swinging Wheels" Strauss. 

18. Racquet, "New" Rowell. 

19. Galop, "On the Wing" Lcmoirc. 

20. Virginia Reel. 

On the following- evening, onr Senior Class Supper was served 
in the Windsor Hotel, Holyoke. 

MENU. 

LITTLE NECK CLAMS. 

POTAGE. 

CONSOMME JULIENNE, AUX QUENELLS. 

POISSON. 

LAKE ERIE WHITE, A LA NORMANDI. 

POMMES DUCHESS. CONCOMBRES. 

RELEVE. 

FILET D' BOEUF, PIQUE AUX CHAMPIGNONS. 

POMMES DE TERRE EN CROQUETTES. 

ENTREE. 

PHILA. SQUAB, BROILED, ON TOAST A LA MAITRE d' HOTEL. 

PETIT POIS. ASPERGES. 

CIGARETTES. 

ROTI. 

ENGLISH SNIPE. 

MAYONNAISE DE VOLAILLE. SALADE DE HOMARD. 

ENTREMET ET DESSERT. 

TUTTI FRUTTI. CHARLOTTE RUSSE. 

ICE CREAM. STRAWBERRIES. 

GATEAUX VARIES. FRUITS ASSORTIS. 

FROMAGES, CAFE. LEMONADE. 



36 CLASS OF 1882. 

W. F. Stearns, E. E. Aldrich, G. V. S. Camp, John H. Hobbs, 
Donald Harvey, Paul Blatchford, Fred T. Rouse and Watson 
L. Savage constituted the Dinner Committee. 

THE TOASTS. 

Toastmaster, . . . . . F. R. Allen. 

Prophet, . . . . . . E. W. Burt. 

Prophet on the Prophet, . . . J. P. Cushing. 

Historian, . . . . . J. H. Hobbs. 

"So we sages sit, 
Amid bumpers brightning 
From the heaven of wit, 
Draw down all its lightning." — Moore. 

Our Alma Mater, . . . . . P. M. Watters. 

"Our hearts with rapture beat high at thy name, 
Thy health is our transport, our triumph, tlry fame." 
Physics, . . . . . . . J. P. Whitehead. 

"Throw physics to the dogs : I'll none of it." — Shakespeare. 
Metaphysics, . . . . . . H. A. Tucker. 

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, 
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." 
Class Debates, ...... Fred Arnd. 

"He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than 
the staple of his arguments." — Sheridan. 
Amherst, . . . . . . . W. L. Savage. 

"Far from gay cities and the ways of men." 
College Honors, . . . . . . E. E. Aldrich. 

"How little do they see what is, who frame 
Their hasty judgments upon that which seems." — Southey. 
The New System, . . . . . . R. C. Smith. 

"Weep not that the world changes ; — did it keep 
A stable changeless course, 'twere cause to weep." — Bryant. 

The Old "Gym.," W. S. Ufford. 

"Here's to the health of our dear old 'Gym.' 
The care destroyer, the body's vim." — Nason. 
Those who have Left Us, . . . . F. D. Proctor. 

"Though absent, present in desire they be."— Drayton. 
The Afternoon Service, . . . . F. A. Bancroft. 

"O peaceful sleep ! until from pain released 
I breathe again uninterrupted breath." — Longfellow. 
The Ladies, . . . . . . . F. T. Rouse. 

"These be the stops that hinder study quite 
And turn our intellects to vain delight." — Shakespeare. 
Eighty-two, . . . . . . F. C. Partridge. 

"A race of giants, learned and profound." 



"One bumper at parting ! though many 
Have circled the board since we met, 
The fullest, the saddest of any, 
Remains to be crowned by us yet." — Moore. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 37 



IVY ODE. 

BY L. S. JUDD. 

Air. — "Soldier's Farewell." 

Our armor brightly gleaming, 
'Neath banners proudly streaming. 
We stand, while joyous morning, 
Each vale and hill adorning, 
Beams glorious o'er our castle walls. 
And sing farewell, ye long-loved halls. 

The bugle's note wild ringing, 
Afar its echoes flinging, 
Shall soon to conflict call us, 
To toil and strife before us. 
But e'er we go, for mem'ry dear, 
We plant our tender ivy here. 

When wintry winds are sighing, 

When joy and hope are dying, 

When life anew is springing, 

While summer birds are singing, 

Year after year, fair ivy vine, 

O'er arch and tower thy tendrils twine. 

As living chains thou'rt winding 
And stone to stone art binding, 
So to each heart close clinging, 
Fond mem'ries ever bringing, 
May ivy tendrils young and fair 
Bind joys of old forever there. 




THE COLLEGE ON THE HILL. 



OUR FORMER REUNIONS 



Shortly after graduation Draper and dishing went to live in 
Holyoke, Draper in business, Cushing in the high school. This 
proximity to Amherst made it necessary for them to act at 
times in behalf of the class. When the class cup was to be 
selected, inscribed, and forwarded to the winner, it was these 
two who officiated as members of a class cup committee. Later, 
when we began to hold reunions, these two did most of the work. 
Draper's removal from Holyoke left the burden of the local work 
upon Cushing ; and it was probably for this reason that he was 
appointed Class Secretary. Our third and fifth reunions were 
jovial affairs. In those days we contented ourselves with 
"breakfasts." There was not much attempt made to get the men 
back, the principal feature of our class life then being a calendar 
with the addresses of the class, which the Secretary published for 
a few years. 

There were nine of our class back for Commencement in 1891 ; 
and we resolved to make our tenth a success. These nine organ- 
ized with Partridge, Rolfe, and Cushing as the committee; the 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 4 1 

class was asked to approve, and the campaign was begun. We 
held a notable reunion, large in numbers and enthusiasm. We 
had the old Boltwood House (now Hitchcock Hall) for our 
headquarters and we had a fine time generally. Savage, Wing, 
Watters, and Mills took part in an Alumni ball game (which they 
helped win) ; we were entertained by several of the professors 
and their wives at afternoon functions ; Cotton Smith presided at 
the alumni dinner, and Partridge made a stirring response for 
the class. At that time we published the ten-year book of the 
class. It was at this reunion that the class gave to the Secretary 
and Mrs. dishing a silver sugar bowl and creamer, which fit- 
tingly engraved is in daily use — a reminder to two at least of 
good friends and good fellowship. 

At the time of our fifteenth reunion the Secretary was living 
in Illinois ; and the greatest part of the work fell upon Rolfe. 
At that time, as well as at our twentieth reunion, we had head- 
quarters at Frank Wood's and were royally entertained. 
Rumored changes in the administration of the College caused 
more than a flurry, but in spite of the disturbance, we had a fine 
time with our lunch, and our banquet. 

For our twentieth we had a large crowd, and had with us 
several whom we had not seen since graduation. This is, after 
all, one of the chief delights of a reunion — meeting the men of 
the class. 

We who have served on reunion committees naturally expect 
twenty or twenty-five, men who live in the East and whom you 
couldn't keep away. (A wedding did keep one or two away.) 
But what we have striven for, is to get out the men whom we 
haven't seen for years. And if they bring along wives and chil- 
dren, so much the better. A glorious time we had, with Jerome 
making a rattling speech at the alumni dinner. 

As the years go by it is getting more and more difficult to 
secure suitable accommodations in Amherst at Commencement 
time. With six or seven hundred of the alumni back, together 
with many of the wives and children, the town is pretty well 
crowded. At our last reunion we had a good, large house : but 
we had to hire twenty-six sleeping-rooms in the neighborhood. 
The need for the Amherst alumni is a large central place ; 
whether it be like the Harvard Union, or the Graduates Club of 
New Haven, or the Princeton Inn, or the Inn at Hanover, it 
should be some building whose size and appointments will make it 
the center of alumni life, and to which we shall all turn upon 
revisiting- the old town. 




SABRINA AND HER WANDERINGS 



Sabrina, the fair daughter of Locrine, was drowned by his 
divorced wife, Gwendolen ; and the stream wherein she met her 
death was the present Severn. She has become famous in 
literature and art. In Milton's "Comus" we read 



"Sabrina fair, 

Listen where thou art sitting 
Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, 

In twisted braids of lilies knitting 
The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair; 
Listen for dear honour's sake, 
Goddess of the silver lake, 
Listen and save !" 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 43 

The Amherst Sabrina, and a twin east, which is now in Wood- 
stock, Conn., are copies of the famous Shrewsbury (Eng.) 
statue. Our Sabrina is of zinc, bronzed and is three hundred and 
fifty pounds in weight. She was presented to the College in 1857 
by Hon. Joel Hayden of Haydenville, and reposed on her pedestal 
undisturbed for several years. During the seventies she was at 
times given clothes, paint, whitewash and tar. A rag baby 
appeared in her arms one year. Sabrina was first taken from 
her pedestal in the fall of 1879 by members of our D.K.E. dele- 
gation and hidden in a barn on the way to Freshman river. To 
show that we bore the College no ill-will and to assist the author- 
ities in locating the stolen goddess, some of our men broke into 
chapel one night and pasted on the bulletin board a notice telling 
of her whereabouts. On the night of the gymnastic exhibition, 
February 14, 1880, when the Class of '82 were Sophomores, she 
was found by one of our class hidden away under the stone steps 
of College Hall, where the authorities had put her to keep her 
"safe." This classmate got her out that night, placed her on a 
sled and pushed and rolled her under the Eastman barn, where 
she lay covered with hay and straw until spring. Late one night 
she was taken in an express wagon to Admiral Greene's barn, 
where she was given two or three coats of white enamel paint. 
A week before our Class Supper she was carefully boxed and 
shipped by freight to the Crocker House, New London, Conn. 
Only a few knew of this: but on the evening of June 25, 1880, 
at the fourth toast, "Sabrina fair, listen and appear to us," she 
appeared — her first appearance at an Amherst Class Banquet. 
The response to the toast was given in eloquent fashion by R. 
C. Smith. 

The morning after the banquet, Sabrina was carried by the 
Class to the station ; and upon our arrival in Amherst was placed 
upon a small platform fastened to a couple of long poles, raised 
to our shoulders and carried back and placed upon her pedestal. 
She was subsequently dumped by the students into the college 
well, and later stored in Professor Charlie's barn, presumably by 
order of the authorities. She was brought to light in '88, when 
the Class of '90 planned to take her to their Class Supper. '91 
kidnapped her and she was hidden in Hatfield. '93 was the last 
odd-number class to be called a Sabrina Class. She attended their 
Sophomore banquet in Boston ; and was shipped back by express 
from Boston to Springfield. A representative of '94 met her in 
Springfield with a forged express receipt, and Sabrina was 
shipped away under the guidance of '94. The Freshman fled to 



44 CLASS OF l882. 

Europe, and detectives failed to locate the goddess. '96 had her 
at their banquet in Nashua, N. H., after she had reposed in a 
sausage factory, a grape cellar and in western New York. She 
appeared at 98's banquet in Bennington, Vt., and at 1900's 
in New London, Conn. 1902 took her to the Hotel Worthy, 
Springfield, the odd-number classmen heard of her presence 
there, charged en masse, put up a stiff fight, but were beaten off. 
1904 took her to New London, Conn. ; 1906 to the Murray Hill, 
New York ; and 1908 worshipped in her presence at the Hotel 
Astor, New York. The men of 1908 have not seen her since, 
but she is being guarded for 19 10. 

"All hail, Sabrina dear, 
The widow of each passing year; 
Long may she ever be 
The widow of Posterity." 



\M IIKRST COLLEGE. 



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LETTERS FROM AMHERST 



PRESIDENT'S OFFICE 



AMHERST COLLEGE 

AMHERST, MASS. 

My dear Mr. Cushing: 

The Class of 1882 will be greatly welcome 
at Commencement. It has more men in public 
life, men of unusual distinction, than any class 
that has graduated at Amherst. 

The gifts of more than $2,000 for the new- 
laboratories helped materially in getting the 
whole amount needed. 

You will be boys again at your twenty-fifth 
reunion. 

I hope to see you all. 

Most truly yours, 

George Harris. 




AMHERST COLLEGE DEPARTMENT OF LATIN 

AMHERST, MASS. 
To the Class of 1882: 

The courteous invitation extended to me 
through your Class Secretary, to renew my 
acquaintance with you in connection with the 
celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of 
your graduation, I deeply appreciate, especially 
because of my distinct recollection of the 
decorum and friendliness as well as the excel- 
lent scholarship uniformly exhibited in the 
recitation room. 

First of all I want to avail myself of the 
opportunity thus afforded of congratulating you individually upon 
what you have accomplished during a quarter of a century of 




46 CLASS OF l882. 

graduate life. As far as it is indicated by the record, I am 
impressed with the variety of the departments of professional 
activity to which the different members of the class have devoted 
themselves, and in which they have achieved distinction. 

It is an interesting fact that almost one-third of your number 
have entered the Christian ministry, a considerably larger propor- 
tion than that of any subsequent class, and I think of any 
preceding class for many years. But I note, also, that all other 
professions are represented, and that in this class, which I had 
the privilege of meeting from day to day for so long a period, 
were those who are now eminent doctors of law, medicine, philos- 
ophy, and science, college presidents and governors of states, as 
well as business men and teachers. 

It is a source of great satisfaction at this time, that the Class 
of 1882, in common with the graduates generally, continue to 
manifest so strong an interest in the welfare of their Alma Mater. 
With all loyal sons of the college, they have reason to cherish an 
honest pride in the fact that during this quarter of a century the 
college has kept fully abreast of the times in its courses of study, 
and in its methods of instruction, administration, and discipline. 
This constant and intimate acquaintance of the alumni, however, 
with the affairs of the college is also a matter of great importance, 
because to their influence is largely due the creation and suprem- 
acy of a correct public sentiment in the undergraduate body on all 
matters pertaining to their relation to the College, and to their 
conduct as individuals. 

Allow me, finally, with most sincere and earnest wishes for 
your welfare in the future, to say in the words of an old English 
divine : "Brethren : may your Moon become more and more like 
the Sun, and your Midday Sun become sevenfold brighter than 

it is!" 

E. P. Crowell. 
Amherst College, May 7, 1907. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 47 

AMHERST COLLEGE 

OFFICE OF DEAN OF FACULTY 

AMHERST, MASS. 




March 26, 1907. 
My Dear Boys of '82: 

To be asked again to write something for 
your class book, is one of the sweet things of 
life which the old teacher is at some rare 
intervals allowed to put among his precious 
gatherings. 

And I do thank you that you are now doing 
this for your old Doctor. It is a joyous 
episode in his life. 

For when you were in college, '78-'82, it was 
in the prime of my life, good feeling and love 
for college boys, if ever I could count on such a thing, and you 
may bet I did for you. 

The Physical Education Department was then well upon its 
feet and the students began to take much pride in it and feel it 
was a good thing in a college course, yes, and even more, many 
of you acted as if it were a necessity in a liberal education. 

And you foreshadowed and prepared the way for an advanced 
"Gym" building and appurtenances, in 1889, which for years 
was the foremost and a model for other colleges and schools to 
pattern after and try to grow up to. 

And in your class we first began to catch on to the science of 
anthropometry when we began to put the tape around your 
heads, neck, chest and extremities, to help us find out what the 
normal and average man was as exemplified in the students of 
Amherst College. 

And the series of marching movements, which have been a 
feature of every class "Gym" Exhibition since your time, calls 
no man author of it save your Ufford. 

Well, all these things and more too which ought to be men- 
tioned carry me along with great tenderness, affection and power 
with the Class of '82. 



4 8 CLASS OF l882. 

And you begin to feel so old when you talk of 25 years "out 
of the hen coop." And so you may, and at the same time 
rejoice that so few of you are on the starred list, tho' they were 
the men whom you could ill afford to think of losing. 

But most of you strong men are on the footstool, and, we hope 
will put in a most generous showing at your 25th anniversary. 
And don't you forget to energize, and work for the Trophy Cup, 
which is such a stir-up for getting good attendance at Com- 
mencement. The more we alumni can get together in large or 
small gatherings the better men we are and the stronger the 

College is. 

The growth of the study of music in college is a feature you 
must have in mind. Hitchcock Hall, the old Boltwood house, is 
now the musical headquarters of college. Under Prof. Bigelow 
we have now a regular Department of Music, ranking as one of 
the studies of the college, and is as much in standing for a degree 
as are the classics or mathematics. And as a visible and tangible 
result to-night we are to give Mendelssohn's Oratorio of St. 
Paul with an orchestra and chorus of 125 persons, male and 
female, in College Hall and tickets all disposed of already. And 
in the same line from now to the end of the year we are to aug- 
ment chapel services about once a week with a 15 minutes 
rehearsal of college songs, thus preparing the classes for the 
Prize outdoor singing which is in place near Commencement 

time. 

Only one thing more — the Natatorium and Squash courts, the 
gift of Mr. Harold S. Pratt and Mortimer Schiff. This means 
that every man in college may have a daily swim in warm water 
as often as his bathing suit can be dried, and that every man is 
to be required to learn how to swim and to have the delightful 
indoor game of handball. 

Please add to all thus far said, that the Olio is now about as 
much a part of college necessities for Faculty and students as 
ever the simple, plain and old catalog has been. 

But stop the garrulity of the old Professor Hygiene. 

May the Peace of God rest sweetly on every one of your dear 
good souls, and your wives and children, and all their relations. 
3 And don't fail to remember the old college by your prayers and 
some frequent gifts, not necessarily of money but good and 
effective lives which may show where you came from. 

Most heartily, 

E. Hitchcock. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 



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Amherst, Mass., .March 21. [907. 
My dear Mr. Cushing: 

Please give my cordial greetings to the 
Class of '82 and add my best wishes for 
a successful and happy reunion at their 
twenty-fifth anniversary of graduation next 
Commencement. I retain the most kindly 
remembrances of your class as they were- more 
than a quarter of a century ago, and often 
recall, in the case of those whom 1 then knew 
best, the "boy" who was "the father of the 
man" of to-day. 

1 hope that your reunion of next Commencement will he the 
hest yon have ever yet held, and that you will all find it a 
veritable "Fountain of Youth." Happy is the man who can carry 
his youth to the very end, and I know of no better aid to this 
result than the cultivation of loyalty to one's class and college. 

Most cordially yours, 

\Y. C. Esty. 




Amherst College, March 22, 1907. 

Gentlemen of the Class of '82: 

It gives me great pleasure to respond to the 
exceedingly brief and business-like letter of 
your Secretary in which "The Class of '82 
presents its compliments and wishes from you 
a letter which it could publish in its forth- 
coming class book." 

I look back over a vista of forty-five classes 
in Amherst College so that I see your bright 
and youthful faces somewhat in the middle 
distance. Indeed I can recall those early 
times when, returning to .Amherst, you spoke with some sense of 
proprietorship of your Alma Mater, and informed the first 
admiring professor you met that you had forgotten all you learned 
in college. If you were a minister what you had really gotten 
here was "culture" ; if a business man, the ability to turn the 
great powers of your mind onto any subject. 

Now, in the riper mesozoic stratum of your experience, you 
are moving toward the time when much of the old learning will 
come back to you, and you will like to talk to your old teachers 




50 CLASS OF l882. 

reminiscently and in a somewhat antiquated vocabulary about the 
old studies. 

Now, also, you are sending boys to college yourselves, and if 
you wish them to be able twenty-five years hence to point with 
pride to the abundant store of college learning they have for- 
gotten you may well throw the weight of your influence in favor 
of old-fashioned hard work, or too many of your boys will never 
be able to forget much of value acquired from their college 
course. 

A brilliant young Chinese student returning from the rally at 
which the present freshmen were introduced into the College life 
with addresses by the President, professors, and "managers" 
wondered that the studies of the College were not mentioned. 

I do not need to tell you how seriously the College has suffered 
in its teaching force in the last year. You will share with me the 
feeling that President Harris will face an important crisis for the 
College on his return in April. The loss of Richardson brings 
back to me the loss of Neill. I came here one of the first of the 
Germans and Neill came soon, and quickly adopted and splendidly 
built out the practical methods we had learned abroad. 

Then Richardson came and my own long life in Germany made 
me enjoy and value constantly, through many years, the German 
Grandlichkeit and Gemiithlichkeit of that fine and true spirit. 
The others whom we have lost were my pupils and became my 
colleagues and firm friends. I remember Garman well in College. 
He was a man of one book and pursued each study as if it was 
to be his life-work and gained such masterful acquaintance with 
each that he was able to use it permanently. 

As that grand life-work grew here I have had many an 
interesting conference and many a wordy battle with him, and 
admired the dialectic skill, the splendid earnestness and intellectual 
honesty of tHe clear and strong thinker. 

I am sure that the finest illustration of his very exceptional suc- 
cess as a teacher will be that one of his strong pupils will carry 
forward the torch which he took from the hands of President 
Seelye. 

In every other way the College is moving on quietly and pros- 
perously. Professor Olds has been an admirable presiding officer. 

The rules, especially with regard to athletics, have been 
enforced equably and without friction. A healthful agitation 
against hazing has arisen among the students. 

I am, of course, especially interested in the new building for 
Geology and Zoology, for which plans are nearly completed. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 5 I 

For this, $150,000 has been obtained, with the admirable pro- 
viso that one-third shall be retained for maintenance. 

It will be a building one hundred and sixty feet long, shaped 
somewhat like the Physics-Chemistry laboratory, but perhaps more 
attractive architecturally, and placed jnst south of the grove of 
pines east of Appleton Cabinet. Short wings, with a broad plat- 
form between, will extend south. Beneath this platform will be an 
aquarium, and in the second story of the east wing the old octag- 
onal lecture room will be reproduced, with a veranda. A more 
extensive and varied panorama of Geology will be visible there 
than from any similar lecture room in the country. 

With the kindliest wishes for the continued welfare of you all, 
Very cordially yours, 

B. K. Emerson. 




Amherst, Mass., May 31, 1907. 

John P. Lushing, Ph.D., New Haven High School, New Haven, 
Conn.: 

Dear Dr. Cushing:---I gladly accept your 

kind invitation to write a letter to be read at 

the approaching reunion of '82. 

First, I wish to tell the class that its old 

teachers and the College are proud of its 

record. Already your achievements have 

advanced sensibly the highest public interests, 

and you have only reached the beginnings of 

your best work. 

In the College, as in the world, much has 
happened since your graduation. Many of the influences which 
have changed the outside world so profoundly have been felt here 
in their full force; and in the readjustments through which the 
College has kept herself in touch with her changing environment, 
it has been necessary to make some experiments. But on review- 
ing the entire quarter century it is, I think, a fair conclusion that 
Amherst has shown herself distinctly progressive without ceas- 
ing to be reasonably conservative. You will find here much of 
the best in the old order united with most of the best in the new. 
Since your last reunion, three strong members of the faculty 
have passed away. When we recall the names of Neill, Richard- 
son and Garman, and realize what each did for his department, 
and for the College, our sense of loss is overwhelming. But 
there is comfort in the reflection that they will live on in the lives 
of the graduates and in the life of the College. 



52 CLASS OF l882. 

In its newer teachers, Amherst possesses a young faculty of 
great talent and fine scholarship. And I venture to add that one 
of the ways in which the members of the Class of '82 can do 
much for the College, and at the same time deepen their own 
interest in her welfare is through making the acquaintance of 
these younger men, and giving to them the encouragement of 
their appreciation. 

Additional grounds for hope and courage are these : first, a 
higher degree of cordial good-will and effective cooperation on 
the part of the undergraduate body with the President and Fac- 
ulty than we have ever known before; second, the rapidly 
increasing usefulness of the Christian Association in promoting a 
healthful and vigorous religious life among the undergraduates ; 
third, a notable growth of interest in the College on the part of the 
alumni, of confidence in her future, and of participation in her 
affairs. 

With heartiest greetings to each member of the class, I remain, 

always sincerely yours, 

Anson D. Morse. 



AMHERST COLLEGE OBSERVATORY 

AMHERST, MASS. 



Dear disking 



April 21, 1907. 



I've been "that druv" with preparations for 
Peru and a season with Mars in the Andes 
that your modest asking for a letter got laid 
aside. My main objection to all this South 
American business for this summer is that it 
takes me away from the twenty-fifth reunion 
of my pet class — bouncing pets some of them, 
by now ; but just as welcome and dear to the 
maiden astronomer, whom '82 had the first 
chance to break in. Well, I'm sorry not to 
be with you, but the President will give you a warm reception, 
and the Commencement charivari will go on just the same. 

I shall be with you in all memories — how they throng, a quarter 
century back ! Many, many times have I recalled that old class 
list, winding up with Partridge, Perry, Rouse, and Wier — all 
noted astronomers. 

Always faithfully and one of you, 

David Todd. 





AMHERST COLLEGE. 53 

AMHERST COLLEGE DEPARTMENT OF LATIN 

AMHERST, MASS. 

Class of '82: 

Gentlemen : — The invitation to send to the 
Secretary a letter, rehearsing any memories 
% might have of the Class of '82 is so cordial, 
that I can not decline, especially since it 
includes the statement that if I do not have 
any "memories" I may "draw on my imagina- 
tion." But when I can recall vividly several 
scenes such, for instance, as was presented 
one Thursday morning, when as Professor 
Elwell and I were coming down from our 
rooms in the South Dormitory to conduct our recitations, we dis- 
covered a member of the Class of '82 vigorously at work, splitting 
on the stone steps some of Mr. Elwell's wood, kept for conve- 
nience in the lower story of the building, I do not need to "draw on 
my imagination," for I have facts. In referring to this experi- 
ence, it is only fair to add, that the student immediately stated 
that he had supposed this wood had been left by some of the 
graduates of the year before, and he offered to make restitution 
by carrying up to the fourth floor, where Mr. Elwell roomed, all 
that he had not burned. Could you have seen the expression on 
the face of your classmate, when informed in a "stentorian" voice 
that this wood was private, not public property, you would have 
been convinced that there was genuine ( ?) repentance exhibited 
there. 

And I can recall many scenes of a different nature, such as 
the reception of some delicacy to be taken to the dearly beloved 
Professor Root, who was during your junior year seriously ill 
in his Belchertown home, remembrances sent from different men 
in your class, and received by him and his family with the deepest 
appreciation. 

And I remember the many kindnesses that I experienced per- 
sonally during those first two years of teaching at Amherst from 
members of your class: and with especial gratitude do I call 
to mind those '82 men. who roomed near me in South College, 
who introduced the recent graduate into many of the current 
College interests, from which he would have been otherwise shut 
out, men whose friendship he has always valued. There are large 
opportunities for loneliness for the graduate who returns to 
Amherst after his friends and classmates have all gone. 



54 CLASS OF l882. 

With the Class of '82 I always associate one of the noblest men 
who was ever connected with the Amherst Faculty, Professor 
Root, who was said by President Seelye to be facile princeps, 
and whose untimely death was perhaps more keenly felt by your 
class than by any other body of students. And since his depar- 
ture we have lost other distinguished and beloved instructors, 
including President Seelye, Professors Tyler, Mather, Frink, 
Neill, Richardson, and Garman. And not only the College, but 
also your class has met with sad losses, some of them recent, 
and we, too, have sorrowed for them. But the smaller the circle, 
the closer the tie that binds all together. And I hope that every 
man will return to the twenty-fifth reunion, because, judging 
from the experience of the Class of '78, the result will be the 
reestablishment of friendships, the discovery and appreciation of 
strong and excellent qualities in classmates, never before realized, 
a strengthening of college spirit, a renewal of youth, and a devel- 
opment of loyalty to the Alma Mater in a wonderful way, and to 
a marvelous degree. And while in Amherst do not miss the 
opportunity of getting acquainted with the new members of the 
Faculty, that you may personally know the men, who are doing 
good work in strengthening and building up the College ; and 
if possible, visit all the buildings, that you may appreciate what 
an advance has been made in the equipment of the old depart- 
ments, and the equipment of the new. The losses of the last year 
to the teaching force seem almost irretrievable. We had, how- 
ever, almost the same feeling at the time of Professor Root's 
death, and as a man was found at that time to very successfully 
carry forward the work of that department, so have we faith 
now to believe that men will be found to take up the work in 
Philosophy, German, and History, temporarily interrupted by the 
deaths of Professors Richardson and Garman, and the resigna- 
tion of Professor Morse; though of course we can not hope to 
discover men with the same personalities, which so endeared 
those men to all their students. Even in the saddest hours of 
this last year, we have always cherished those words of Horace, 
Nil desperandum ; and now with the return of President Har- 
ris from Europe, and a strong and united Faculty, the future is 
again bright and promising. 

With most cordial wishes for a satisfactory reunion, and for 

the prosperity and happiness of every member of the Class of '82. 

Most sincerely yours, 

William Lyman Cowles. 
Amherst College, May 6, 1907. 




AMHERST COLLEGE. 55 

AMHERST COLLEGE DEPARTMENT OF GREEK 

amherst, mass. 

March 18, 1907. 

My dear Mr. Cusiiing : — It gives me great 
pleasure to be remembered by your class ; and 
I am happy to send you my word of greeting 
on occasion of your twenty-fifth anniversary. 
For I have grateful and pleasant memories 
of you all ; and now when I can not possibly 
have an ax to grind, it can do you no harm 
for me to say so. 

I need not say that the college has grown 
and improved with the passing years. The 
catalogue of your senior year shows twenty-seven teachers, three 
hundred and forty-three students ; the current catalogue shows 
forty-two teachers, four hundred and seventy-five students. Of 
your teachers, the names of twelve still appear. But of these, 
three are no longer with us. Since the year began, the genial 
and earnest Professor Richardson and the scholarly and inspiring 
Professor Garman have been called to the higher life; two years 
ago Professor Esty resigned and is now Professor Emeritus ; and 
this year Professor Morse concludes his college work, to the 
regret of us all. 

Both the teachers of Latin, Professors Crowell and Cowles, 
are continuing the excellent and efficient work which has always 
characterized their department. But the Greek department has 
sustained many changes : Professor Mather was succeeded by 
Professor Gibbons who, two years later, was followed by Profes- 
sor Sterrett; and six years ago, Professor Smith succeeded Pro- 
fessor Sterrett. The year after the appointment of Professor 
Sterrett, Professor Tyler resigned; and since then the depart- 
ment has had but two teachers. In Latin the number of students 
has increased with the growth of the college; but in Greek the 
number of late has rapidly declined, since Greek is no longer 
required for the B.A. degree. Of the one hundred and seventy- 
seven freshmen, thirty-three take the regular freshman Greek. 

The Class of '82 did its college work quietly and well ; and I 
trust that its members are not less successful in their chosen life 
work. You may be sure of a most hearty welcome on the occasion 
of your approaching reunion. And with my best wishes for each 
and all of you, both then and always, I remain. 

Yours faithfully, 

Levi H. Elwell. 




COLLEGE HALL. 



THE TWENTY-FIFTH REUNION 



The Class of '82 of Amherst College celebrated in June, 1907, 
its twenty-fifth anniversary, and from all the reports it was a 
pronounced success. Albree. Rolfe, Partridge, and the Secre- 
tary worked at the proposition for a good many months. Whit- 
ing gave us a stirring-up dinner in New York, and the Boston 
men followed suit in that region. The preliminary work aimed 
at getting as many as possible of the men back; and the com- 
mittee and the class regret that some at the last moment found 
it impossible to attend. Our men are widely scattered, and 
distance alone kept a number from us. We had hopes that Bliss 
might come on from Syria, Lawrence from the Argentine, and 
some of the California contingent from the far West : but these 
and others not so far away were deprived of a week of good 
fellowship in Amherst. As to the long-distance prize, it should 
be awarded to Draper, who made the trip from Cananea, 

Mexico. 

Amherst has changed in twenty-five years and in Commence- 
ments as much as anything else. At our tenth reunion we had 



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modest headquarters in Hitchcock Hall (the old Boltwood 
House) ; at our fifteenth and twentieth we were at Frank 

Wood's (at the head of the 
street that runs between the 
Psi U. and Alpha Delta Phi 
Houses). There we swung 
out a flag and hung out some 
bunting. For this reunion 
we secured Prospect House 
on the north side of Amity 
Street around the corner 
from the Amherst House. 
There we unfurled our banner and on Tuesday had some music. 
But the younger classes are now coming back in gaudy and 
fantastic uniforms, decorating their headquarters profusely, and 
with brass bands, electric lights, and servitors are letting all know 
that they are in town. 

'47 came back, sixty years out of college, opened his head- 
quarters, hung out his banner — all to let us know that one man 
of the Class of '47 with proper devotion could enter into the 
spirit of the week. 

But a twenty-five-year-old class is supposed to be a staid and 
sober aggregation, and we tried to make noise enough to comport 
with our elderly station. One of our men said he wouldn't come 
to the reunion unless we had a brass band; naturally, then, 
we had the brass band. Amherst has improved greatly in her 
singing; and we spent our spare time learning and singing 
"Cheer for Old Amherst," and "Lord Geoffrey Amherst," two 
recent productions, and rattling good ones, too. 

There were present at this reunion : Rev. James W. Bixler and 
Seelye Bixler, Mr. Paul Blatchford and John Blatchford 
(Amherst 1910), Rev. E. H. Burt, Mr. Asahel Bush (Amherst 
1909), Mr. and Mrs. Geo. V. Camp, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Cush- 
ing, Mr. E. P. Draper, Rev. and Mrs. F. W. Greene and 
Theodore A. Greene, Rev. and Mrs. Geo. A. Hall, Miss Hall, 
Gordon R. Hall, and Robert C. Hall, Rev. and Mrs. J. H. Hobbs 
and Harold Hobbs (Amherst 1909), Mr. L. S. Judd, Air. James 
H. Knapp, Rev. and Mrs. Charles W. Loomis, Frederick C. 
Loomis, George C. Loomis and Charles W. Loomis, Jr., Dr. and 
Mrs. E. H. Martin, Rev. and Mrs. Charles S. Mills, Miss Mills, 
and Charles M. Mills, Mr. Frank C. Partridge, Hon. F. D. 
Proctor, Mr. Waldo Burt Reed, Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Richard- 
son, Mr. A. G. Rolfe, Dr. and Mrs. W. L. Savage, Rev. Roland 



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Cotton Smith, Rev. A. W. Stanford, Rev. and Mrs. W. F. 
Stearns and Douglas Stearns, Rev. and Mrs. Lucius H. 
Thayer. Ellsworth and Dorothy Thayer, Mr. W. H. Thompson, 
Mr. and Mrs. II. A. Tucker, Mr. W. S. Ufford, Dr. George H. 
Washburn and George E. and Arthur A. Washburn, Rev. P. M. 
Watters, Dr. and Mrs. Fred Whiting. Mr. and Mrs. F. N. Wier, 
Mr. J. C. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. J. I". Win.-. Mr. John Albree, 
Mr. Gurdon R. Fisher, Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Potter, Miss Potter, 
Nathan Potter, Rev. Joseph Wheelwright. 

The summary shows that there were thirty-six of the men, 
seventeen of the wives, and twenty of the children present, — 
seventy-three in all. This is by far our best showing as regards 
the wives and children. As regards the men, three of our last 
reunions have not varied much from thirty-five. Our figures 
this year, thirty-six, are our best. At our tenth reunion we 
had thirty-four men back, ten of the wives and two of the 
children. At our fifteenth there were twenty men back and 
seven wives. At our twentieth we had thirty-four men and 
fifteen women. 

NUMBERS AT REUNIONS. 

Men. Women. Children. Total. 

Tenth 34 10 2 48 

Fifteenth 20 7 2 7 

Twentieth 34 *5 49 

Twenty-fifth 36 17 20 73 

In the competition for the Reunion cup, '82 ranked second: 
'97 took the cup. 

The following have been present at all of these four reunions: 
Mr. John Albree, Rev. J. W. Bixler, Mr. A. G. Rolfe, Mr. 
F. B. Richardson. Dr. W. L. Savage, F. N. Wier, Esq., Dr. J. F. 
Wing, Rev. F. W. Greene, Mr. L. S. Judd, Dr. Fred Whiting, 
Rev. P. M. Watters, and Mr. J. P. Cushing, and Mrs. Savage 
and Mrs. Cushing — twelve men and two women. 

These people were accommodated at our headquarters and in 
twenty-six nearby rooms. We took our meals together and 
lounged about the parlors and the verandas as we pleased. 
Stanford, especially, took the palm as a story teller, and he had 
no difficulty in holding spellbound most of the twenty youngsters 
with his tales of adventure; while Draper was not far behind 
with his gun stories from the mines of Mexico. The thanks of 
the class are due to Mrs. Perry, the proprietor of Prospect 



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CLASS OF l882. 




House, for her endeavors to make us have a good time, and to 
Harold Hobbs, the Secretary's assistant, who proved himself 
to be the right man in the right place. Not the least interesting- 
person in the group at the 
house was Mrs. Potter of 
Enfield, the mother of our 
E. C. Potter, who honored 
us with her presence on the 
last day of our reunion. 
Our reunion photograph 
will give some notion of 
our numbers, although 
several were unavoidably 
absent at the time the 
photograph was taken. 

Those who came on 
Saturday had the best time, 

because they were there 
longest; the others made 
up in intensity what they 
lacked in time. We had a 
good house-warming Satur- 
day night, and had many a 
good guess at each new- 
comer's identity. Sunday 
we attended Baccalaureate 
with President Harris' ser- 
mon upon "The Newness 
of Life." 

The view from the hill 
towards Pelham was just 
as beautiful as it was twenty-five years ago ; and some of us 
took a partial "cut." In the afternoon in the remodeled Col- 
lege Hall (which now, by the way, is a gem) we heard the 
Requiem Mass rendered in very effective fashion under the 
direction of Professor Bigelow. 

Monday was our outing day. There were fifty of us to 
board the private car in front of the Amherst House at ten 
o'clock ; and with cheers and yells and flags a-flying we were 
off on a "'Jerusalem Revisited" trip. In these days of the 
trolley, students may still drive their hired nags towards Hamp 
and Holyoke ; but I imagine the principal concern is to catch the 
last car back. 




AM HERST COLLEGE. 



61 



The road down past Trott's and the D. U. house has been 
improved since our days; the Central Massachusetts Railroad 
cuts under the road just below the D. U. house, and the station 
is just off the road. 'There are occasional new houses along the 
road; but the old landmarks are still there, even the orchards 
and grapevines of a quarter century ago. The car line goes 
through the Notch, and in general follows the highway. Mount 
Holyoke College is an altogether different institution from the 
Seminary of our day. The group of beautiful buildings created 
a verv favorable impression. On we went across the bridge to 
Holyoke, up through the principal streets, passing the site of 
the old Windsor Hotel where we had our Senior Class Supper. 
A stop for lunch was made at the Mount Tom House which was 
reached after a most enjoyable ride through Mountain Park. 
Most of this range is now a State reservation. The day was 
warm, as Commencement days usually are, but on Mount Tom 
we had a couple of hours of great delight. Resuming our car at 
the foot of the incline railway, we returned to Amherst by way 
of Northampton and Hadley just in time to witness the Amherst- 
Williams game. We had a great day, and Amherst won. 
What more could you expect in one day? Prize-speaking and 
dramatics lured some away from the porch in the evening, and 
at a profitable hour cptiet came upon the headquarters. 

By Tuesday we had most of the crowd back, and our business 
meeting in the parlors was well attended. The President, F. C. 
Partridge, presided. The disposition of the class fund was 
announced. This, with private gifts from class members, 
amounted to more than two* thousand dollars, and was given to 
the College to help along a new Biological Building. 

At our reunion in 1892 it was decided to raise a class fund, 
and pledges were made at that time, payable in five annual install- 
ments. Rolfe, Cushing, and Partridge were appointed a com- 
mittee to take charge of it. Between 1892 and 1897 the 
committee collected on these pledges $1,090 and deposited the 
same in a savings bank at interest. 

The Secretary's letter to the class after the reunion in June, 
1892, spoke of the decision to raise a class fund and of the 
appointment of the committee, but did not state for what purpose 
the fund was to be raised. The original talk, however, was that 
it should be used for a scholarship ; but at the reunion in 1897— 
and Cushing thinks again at the reunion in 1902— the class voted 
to leave the disposition of the fund to the committee. After 
such consultation with the fellows as was possible, and with the 



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CLASS OF 1882. 



College authorities, the committee decided that it would be 
generally satisfactory to the class and would do the College the 
most good to contribute the fund to the new laboratory building, 
and accordingly on the 3d of November, 1906, the entire fund 
(which at that time with interest amounted to $1,707.51) was 
sent to Mr. Howland, the Treasurer of the College, as a con- 
tribution from the class to the new laboratory. This use of the 
money was much desired, by the College authorities, and the 
committee hopes will be satisfactory to the class generally. 
Albree was appointed Class Historian and asked to assist the 
Secretary in getting out the Class Book. Potter expressed his 
desire to make for the College a bust of the late President 
Seelye. The class heartily 
endorsed the idea, and 
agreed to pay for putting it 
into bronze. A member of 
the class, who modestly 
requested that his name be 
not mentioned, expressed 
the desire to give a suitable 
marble pedestal. Whiting, 
Rolfe, and Bixler were 
appointed a committee on 
the Potter-Seelye memorial. 
Plans for the Class Book 
were discussed, and all 

agreed to help the project. 
It may be stated here 
that no financial report 
upon the reunion will be 
submitted to the class. 
Albree, Rolfe, and Part- 
ridge have examined the 
Secretary's report. Finan- 
cial backing has been 
secured for this present 
volume. When you receive 
this book there will probably 
be no debts and no balance. 
We spent at our fifteenth 
reunion $302.50; and at our twentieth, $440.40. Our total 
expenses for the twenty-fifth reunion will approximate $2,000. 
The lunch at one o'clock brought nearly all the crowd together. 





AMHERST COLLEGE. 63 

The Stevens Arms Band gave us a choice line of music, and Hall 
took the class picture. Then the desire seized us to appear in 
public, and with Gym. Captain Ufford leading- the band, we 
marched, men, women and children, across the common and up 
to the old church, where twenty-five years ago we had planted 
an ivy. This ivy is no more; "orders" had cut it down. 
But with our old Ivy orator, Thayer, on hand, and with a 
farmer preacher, Wheelwright, and with an ivy which Draper 
had secured, we planted our ivy anew, and from the way Wheel- 
wright planted it, it's bound to grow and prosper. This event, 
carried out without any formality or any sign of pre-arrange- 
ment, shared in alike by us all — men, women, and children, was 
one of the most interesting of the reunion. Then the lines were 
reformed, and we sailed right into the grove to the tune of 
"Lord Geoffrey Amherst." Business in the grove was sus- 
pended for a few minutes ; and then we tried to think of what 
Rolfe and Whiting would have done had they been holding forth. 

Fraternity receptions and the President's reception from five 
to eight; and a right smart shower at the same time. 

On Commencement Day we had the pleasure of seeing Mills 
receive a "D.D.," and Potter an "M.A." 

Potter was presented for his degree as follows: "Edward 
Clark Potter, sometime member of the Class of 1882; sculptor. 
His animal figures are notable for beauty, power and lifelike- 
ness. His statues of distinguished men are famous for grace, 
strength and repose. Originality of conception and painstaking- 
conscientiousness of execution mark his work. He strikes the 
note of sincerity in art." 

Mills was introduced in these words: "Charles Smith Mills, of 
the Class of 1882, minister of the Pilgrim Congregational 
Church of St. Louis. An effective preacher, a pastor beloved, 
a wise organizer, trustee of colleges, Director and President of 
missionary societies, a leader in the Congregational Church." 

The class feels honored at this distinction, 
and the College surely honored herself by 
these acts. The alumni dinner in the 
new Gym. was the scene of great enthu- 
siasm. The principal features were the 
presentation of a large silver loving cup to 
Professor John M. Tyler, to mark the com- 
pletion of his twenty-five years of service 
at the College, and the announcement of our 
gift of the bust of the late President Seelye. Then came hurried 




64 CLASS OF l882. 

good-byes ; and with the refrain of "Lord Geoffrey Amherst" 
ringing' in our ears we separated. 

"Oh Amherst, 
Brave Amherst, 
'Tis a name known to fame in days of yore. 

May it ever 

Be glorious 
Till the sun shall climb the heavens no more." 



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THE CLASS BANQUET 



The reunion banquet was served in the mathematical room of 
Walker Hall at 9 o'clock Tuesday evening. Governor Proctor, 
who had been with us, had left as he was obliged to be present 
at the Commencement of the University of Vermont on the 
following day. We missed him greatly at the banquet ; but there 
were thirty-five of us gathered around the U-shaped table. T. D. 
Cook & Sons of Boston, who have served us in former years, 
provided the following menu : 

MENU. 

"To blow and swallow at the same moment is not 
easy." — Plautus. 

LITTLE NECK CLAM COCKTAIL. 

MOCK TURTLE SOUP. 

FILET OF HALIBUT. 

ESCALLOPED POTATOES. SLICED CUCUMBERS. 

SPRING LAMB CUTLETS. 

BAKED STUFFED TOMATOES. 

CHICKEN SALAD. SMALL ROLLS. 

SALTED NUTS. OLIVES. 

ASSORTED FANCY CAKES. 

INDIVIDUAL ICE CREAMS AND FROZEN PUDDING, EN CASE. 

COFFEE. 

CRACKERS. CHEESE. 

This, with the toast list, was elaborately displayed on hand- 
painted menu cards, the work of Elliot of Philadelphia. ' The 
toast list follows : 

TOASTS. 

"What voice is so sweet, and what greeting so dear, 
As the simple, warm welcome that waits for us here? 
The love of our boyhood still breathes in its tone, 
And our hearts throb the answer — 'He's one of our own.' " 

■ — -Holmes. 

Toastmaster, ..... Frank C. Partridge. 

"Sweet Themmes : runne softly, till I end my song." 

— Spencer. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 67 

In Retrospect — A Quarter of a Century from Alma Mater, 

Philip M. Watters. 
"There's rosemary, that's for remembrance: .... 
and there is pansies, that's for thots." — Shakespeare, 

"I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, 
old manners, old books, old wine." — 'Goldsmith. 
America's New Possesions, .... Arthur F. Odlin. 

"America ! half brother of the world." — Bailey. 

"There is what I call the American idea 

a government of the principles of eternal justice, the 
unchanging laws of God. For shortness' sake I will call 
it the idea of Freedom." — Parker. 
'82 at the Noontide, ..... Lucius H. Thayer. 

"We do not count a man's years until he has nothing 
else to count." — Emerson. 

"What's done we partly may compute." — Burns. 
America's New Ideals, . . . William Travers Jerome. 

First Player — -"We have reformed that indifferently 
with us, sir." 

Hamlet — "O, reform it altogether." — Shakespeare. 
"I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all 
summer." — Grant. 
In Prospect, . . . . . . Charles S. Mills. 

"Forward, forward, let us range, 
Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change, 
Thro' the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger day." 

— Tennyson. 
"The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are 
more pleasing than those crowned with fruition." — Gold- 
smith. 



RESPONSE OF PHILIP M. WATTERS. 

I must confess that with the joy of this reunion there comes 
to me a touch of sadness to-night. As I look out over the bald 
knobs and grizzled beards that are before me I am constrained to 
ask in the words of the poet : — 

"Where, O where, are the lilies and the roses 
That in our youth did smile?" 

Can it be that these grave and venerable gentlemen are the same 
fellows who stood with me upon Commencement stage twenty- 
five years ago, strong in the first flush of manhood? We shall 
hardly pass for youth to-night, though some of us are still 
young as husbands. As I look into the face of our chairman, who 
has so recently joined the holy order of the Benedicts, and 
"bears his blushing honors thick upon him," I am reminded of 



68 CLASS OF l882. 

a joke which old Prof. Ty used to crack for the enlightenment 
of successive classes : — "It is said that handsome women often 
fall in love with homely men. — There is hope for some of the 
gentlemen of this division." 

And has he not an ancient and honorable look, our Fletcher, 
who has climbed the dizzy heights of fame and sits to-night in 
the Governor's chair? I have heard of a boy who was proud 
in owning a bantam hen, but was greatly disappointed in the size 
of her eggs. Finally he invented a saving device. He secured 
the shell oi an ostrich egg, and hung it up in front of the 
bantam's nest, with these words inscribed : "Keep your eye on 
this, and do the best you can." — Young men of the Class of '82, 
whatever may have been your discouragements to date, mark that 
shining pate, and take courage ! 

And yonder portly gentleman — he of the venerable beard — 
the noted physician of Boston — can he be the black-haired 
Adonis whom we used to know, the pride of the premier division, 
who could make such cold rushes in "Voila le pouce" and 
"Asseyez vous sur le f auteuil ?" — O tempora ! O mores ! 

I am afraid the rushes which we made are very cold to-night. 
The passing of the years has brushed clean out of memory much 
which we learned here. We have lost the loci of the points we 
used to trace for Esty. We have forgotten the reactions which 
once we got for Derwald. Second aorists and second perfects 
and datives of advantage and disadvantage are not the things 
which we have been looking for — most of us — during these 
twenty-five years. But some things I can recall. For instance : — 
"Gentlemen, when you lie three in a bed you have to lie pretty 
quiet!" And this, too, I must have learned at Amherst: — 

"There is satisfactory evidence that many professing to have 
been the original witnesses of the Christian miracles passed their 
lives in labors, dangers, and sufferings, voluntarily undergone, 
in attestation of the faith which they delivered." And yet we 
used to call "Christian Evidences" a "soft snap" ! 

I remember a certain morning when someone was reciting — ■ 
was it Johnnie Wing? — and things were getting tangled and 
looking like a flunk, when suddenly a hand went up : — "Has Mr. 
Tucker a question?" — Mr. Tucker was not always so hot on the 
scent of Christian Evidences, and it was pleasing to note his 
growing interest. — "Mr. Wing may be seated." — And the rest 
of the hour was spent in answering Mr. Tucker's question. It 
is pleasant to recall this beautiful philanthropy. 



AM II ERST COLLEGE. 69 

But the treasures which we stored up in those old days, and 
which still enrich our lives, arc not to he measured in class-room 
recollections or any definite facts and scenes which still recur 
to us. There lives in the deepest roots of our character, and 
sings in our hearts' best blood to-night the spirit of Old Amherst. 

Mr. Hamilton W. Mabie tells how, coming one morning to visit 
an aged Scotchman in his highland home, he found the old man 
standing before his cottage with hat in hand, seemingly in prayer. 
"I waited in reverence,'' says Mr. Mabie, "and said to him when 
finally I spoke, T did not wish to disturb your prayer.' The old 
man's eye kindled with enthusiasm as he answered, 'O mon, I 
was not praying. But every morning I come out here and take 
off my bonnet to the beauty of the world.' " And do not we 
carry in our hearts to-night a love of nature, a reverence for God 
as revealed in His works, born of those days of enthusiasm and 
idealism which we spent in the glory of these hills ? 

And how shall we measure the influence of those men — 
Seelye, Garman, Tyler, Crowell, Neill, Emerson, Hitchcock — all 
our instructors who, not only by their lips but by their lives, taught 
us strong lessons here ; and who, even though dead, still live 
to-night in much that is best in you and me ? How can I estimate 
the value of a single conversation held with President Seelye 
in this very building — or rather in that other building which 
stood upon this site — from which conversation I date my first 
definite turning to that ministry which has become my life and 
my joy? 

And the fellows — dear old fellows of the Class of '82 — class- 
mates present or absent — who were drawn together by lives of 
united purpose and effort here, and who, though our lives may 
be divided, are ever drawing closer in love as our ranks are 
thinning through the years ! How can we measure the value of 
such friendships ? 

In memory of the dead, in thoughts of the absent, in glad- 
ness that so many of us are met again to-night, we turn our faces 
backward to catch the glory which still shines for us in the days 
of Auld Lang Syne. 

Fellows of the Class of '82, let us rise and drink, in this good 
water from her hills, to the health of dear Old Amherst — God 
bless her ! 



70 CLASS OF l882. 

RESPONSE OF LUCIUS H. THAYER. 

(Thayer writes that he made no notes for his address, and that while 
he did not speak without-meditation, yet the occasion itself largely deter- 
mined -the sentiment and phrasing of what he said. With this explana- 
tion of his inability to reproduce his address in just the original 
form he furnishes the following copy.) 

Mr. President and Classmates : — A Hindoo prince once 
called upon Rossetti and gave him a commission to paint a picture 
of the prince's father, who had died some time before. The 
terms were acceptable to the artist, but when he asked for a 
picture of the dead man the son replied that there was no like- 
ness in existence, and for that very reason he had particularly 
desired the painting- which he had ordered. He explained that 
as Rossetti had produced pictures of Mary Magdalene and John 
the Baptist there was no reason why the picture of his father 
should not be made. No explanations or expostulations availing, 
Rossetti painted the portrait. When the picture was unveiled 
before the expectant son, he looked upon a beautiful work of 
art, representing faithfully the conventional Indian rajah. The 
youth gazed upon it with mingled awe and perplexity, and then 
bursting into tears exclaimed, "Poor, dear father, how he has 
changed !" 

Not thus do we look upon '82 at this "Noontide." "Fortunate 
and dear class, the familiar and cherished features remain as of 
old !•" After twenty-five years we greet one another with the 
assurance, "You have not changed at all." And this is true, 
so generally is the earlier countenance disclosed in the one in 
which we are glad to-day. Yet the face of '82 is something other 
than it was twenty-five years ago. We thank God for this. It 
is a more interesting face. It is a transfigured face, for it 
reflects the refining experience of the inward man of intelligence, 
feeling, and action, who has been wrought upon by time and the 
compelling facts and forces of life. If the face has lost some- 
thing of its youthful freshness and expectancy, it has also parted 
with its arrogance and disdain. Though it be less willful, it is 
more forceful. Though it be less assured, it is more determined. 
Though it betray a chastened enthusiasm, it reveals a larger 
wisdom. If it has not the complacency of success, or the peace 
of inward wholeness, yet it speaks for men who have endeavored 
to play their parts well, and who have not wholly despised their 
visions, or altogether surrendered their ideals. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. • 71 

It is a strong, friendly, compassionate face that shows itself, 
one rarely darkened by jealousy, and often lighted up by the 
glow of appreciation. It is a face to which one might turn with 
confidence, if he have children to be educated, property to be 
administered, rights to be guarded, physical pain to be relieved, 
sins to be confessed, or sorrows to be comforted. 

I speak of '82 as I see her to-night, and though my eyes are a 
little misty, I verily believe that I describe things as they are, 
in the face of '82, reading the heart as it is after twenty-five 
years. 

In one of the less populous hill towns of Vermont, just beyond 
that fortunate region presided over by Governor Proctor and 
yourself, Mr. President, two aged men, one fall afternoon, sat 
upon the porch of the little country store, watching the sun go 
down, as they had done on many a day before, comforted by 
each other's presence, but rarely speaking. After a time they 
observed another oldtime friend as he turned out of a by-path 
and made his way down the road toward the setting sun. After 
a while, one remarked to the other, "There goes Si Wilkins." 
"Yes," slowly responded the other, and after a pause he added, 
"Si ain't the man he used to be." "No," replied the first friend 
after meditation, "No, and he never was." 

I confess, my classmates, that I often tell myself this story, 
and find it pertinent, and therefore illuminating, if not consoling. 
It is not pertinent to '82 as a class, but it contains suggestions and 
instruction for such an occasion as this. Eighty-two has its fair 
share of competent men, and some whose achievements are 
notable. We have a national reputation for political and civic 
leadership. We enter the courts of justice with authority. We 
preside over well-known institutions of learning. We grace 
metropolitan pulpits. We lead denominational activities. We 
create literature and write authoritative history. We work 
important results in quiet laboratories. We investigate with new 
skill the conditions of the unfortunate and reorganize charitable 
effort. We do the work of the missionary with unconscious 
heroism. We venture with astuteness into the business enter- 
prises of our generations and return bringing golden fleeces 
with us. We counsel and restore the sick, and handle the scalpel 
with such precision that we are chief among the operators. 

We are justly proud of our classmates, and their achieve- 
ments would yield us much matter worthy of recital. But at 
this time we are not anxious to inquire too nicely concerning our 



72 CLASS OF l882. 

successes. There are other considerations of deeper import. 
This is the occasion when men desire to step from under the 
burden of honors which ability or chance has laid upon them. 
This is the time when no fetters of regret or self-abasement 
should hinder us. As free men, in a comradeship of the spirit, 
we keep this festival. 

As a class we were accustomed to think of ourselves soberly, as 
we ought to think. On our own confession, we were not the 
most wonderful class that ever came to Amherst College. We 
were not a large heterogeneous group of men. We were a loyal 
body, not torn by dissensions. We were wont to be comrades 
and to esteem one another. To-night, having become appre- 
ciative and considerate through experience, and holding in mem- 
ory only the kind and brotherly things of the early days, it is 
our wisdom, as it is our joy, to be but classmates together, every 
man bestowing the best of himself. 

We are able to understand and value one another, as we could 
not a quarter of a century ago. We now recognize our need of 
one another, and are no longer blind to the great contributions 
which men in fellowship, simply as men, make to one another. 
The simple and elemental qualities of manhood, joined in a com- 
mon experience, are the ample and sufficient basis for that com- 
radeship which makes the music of this time and which may 
supply courage for the struggles to come. 

Browning, in one of his poems, speaks of what a man is worth 
to God, and ventures to put a valuation upon "all instinct 
immature, all purposes unsure," "All I could never be." I have 
been thinking of what we are worth to one another. What we 
are in the manhood of us at this noontide is the principal item, 
and all of that we cherish as a precious possession. But I am 
sure that there where manhood is in the making, — in the hopes, 
the aspirations, the purposes feebly held and struggled for, in 
the temptations, the lapses, the defeats, in all the hidden struggle, 
its heroic, pathetic, yes, sometimes tragic elements, — that there 
I find that which draws out the heart, which binds us as man 
to man with strong cords of sympathy, and which makes us of 
worth one to another, as we have been irrevocably joined by the 
common motherhood of Amherst, in the upward calling of the 
life of the spirit. If at the noontide it be true that we are men 
kindlier and wiser grown, glad in others success, but valuing 
most their manhood, finding a strong tie and our worth to one 
another, in the struggle for manhood, — if such be the case, then 
we may turn our faces toward evening with a good heart, and 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 73 

while hoping for a long afternoon of labor and heartening 
fellowship, yet have no fear when the sun goes down. 

"No, at noonday in the bustle of man's work-time 
Greet the unseen with a cheer." 

Something of what I have felt with you and tried to say to 
you to-night I have introduced in some lines which I venture to 
read in closing. 

Alma Mater, Foster Mother, 

We raise our song to thee, 
Enthroned upon thy glorious seat 

In light and liberty. 
Behind, o'er hills that bastion truth, 

Morn breaks with level rays, 
In front a wide, unhindered view 

Greets thy prophetic gaze. 

Alma Mater, Foster Mother, 

In dreams we often see 
The features of thy face serene, 

Dight all in greenery, 
Or decked in glistering garments 

Of winter, chaste and white, 
Full glorious in thy children's eyes 

When barred with purple light. 

Alma Mater, Foster Mother, 

Our tired hearts to thee turn. 
Those stout with pride, those starved for praise, 

Thy patience will not spurn. 
How gracious was thy mothering, 

O brow without a frown. 
How deft the hand, how brave the prayer, 

That will'd each son's renown. 

Alma Mater, Foster Mother, 

Our best to thee is brought, 
Forgive the worst and soothe and cheer. 

Bestow the courage sought. 
The memory of thy motherhood, 

The vision of thy face, 
Shall guard and gird, shall make us bold 

To bide in honor's place. 

Alma Mater, Foster Mother, 

We raise our song to thee, 
Unnumbered sons shall serve thy truth, 

Thou hast eternity. 
In joyous awe we go our way, 

Forgotten names, brief part 
Of thy long scroll, yet not forgot 

By thy great mother heart. 



74 CLASS OF l882. 

RESPONSE OF CHARLES S. MILLS. 
Mr. President and Fellow Classmates : — 

It is often supposed that one of my profession covets the 
opportunity to speak on any theme at any time; but I confess 
that I feel no little embarrassment in attempting to say a word 
to-night. I am reminded of the Irishman in a story that Lincoln 
told a friend who called upon him when he was passing through 
a period of great depression and who said to him : "This being 
President is not half as much fun as it is cracked up to be, is it?" 
"No," Lincoln replied, "I feel like the Irishman who said after 
being ridden on a rail, 'If it wasn't for the honor of the thing 
I'd rather walk.' " 

We have been endeavoring to locate ourselves in these days 
we have spent together with the result that each of us is as 
thoroughly mixed as was another man from the Emerald Isle, 
who had been reposing in a section of a sleeping car with a fellow 
compatriot and, wakened in the night by a collision, hurried into 
his clothes so precipitously that he put on his trousers "hind side 
before," and when his friend asked him whether he was hurt 
replied, "No, I'm not hurt, but," looking at his trousers, "I'm 
fatally twisted." As we look into one another's faces the dim and 
distant days of our college fellowships come back, but our nearer 
tasks and heavier responsibilities loom up between us and them 
so that we need to pinch ourselves to make sure whether we are 
in the flesh or only dreaming. 

There is one thing, however, which none of us has been able 
to shake off, — that it is really twenty-five years since we took 
our diplomas, and that we are at the outermost limit of the 
younger years. I remember, when I returned for our tenth 
reunion, that a college boy asked me what my class was and, 
on being told, said, "Whew! but that's a long way back!" Yet, 
now the ten years have stretched to twenty-five, and a young 
alumnus actually went the limit to-day when he spoke to me as 
a member of the Class of '62 ! 

I am very glad, then, in the sobering thought of twenty-five 
years, that our President has attached to this toast of mine these 
fine, cheery words from Tennyson : — 

"Forward, forward, let us range, 
Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change, 
Thro' the shadow of the globe we sweep into the j^ounger day," 

for therein is indicated the unconquerable optimism with which 
we look forward and which I am glad to take as my theme. Life 



AM HERST COLLEGE. 75 

seemed bright to us when, as verdant freshmen, we emerged from 
the obscurity of our homes and entered these classic halls; 
brighter yet when we came to the glory of our Commencement 
Day and received our sheepskins ; still brighter when we returned 
here three years, or five years, or ten years later; but we were 
never so eager for it as now. 

Back of us are the years of preparation and of our first 
experiences in the professions or in business, of the beginnings 
of mastery in the chosen tasks ; and yet we are still at work on 
that greatest of all the lessons of our college life. For, while 
the pages of our text-books are as forgotten dreams and their 
rules have faded from the film of our memory, this one amid all 
these transient elements abides in power perennial, like the gold 
washed from the sands, that the educated man is he who has 
learned how to learn and who, amid all his tasks in science or 
the classics, has acquired the teachable spirit. We sought to 
learn that lesson twenty-five years ago; we are still trying to 
learn it; we propose to keep on trying. 

As we look forward we think of the years as marked by this 
characteristic of the open mind. We are not to spend our time 
boasting of our lineage, our opportunities, or our learning. The 
test of the worthiness of life, we know well, is not what we have 
had of fortune, birth or education, but what we are producing. 
Some of you may have heard of that American traveling in 
Italy, who had a courier who was greatly infatuated with that 
theory which Cotton Smith emphasizes so mightily, the Apos- 
tolic Succession, and attached it to every possible object. Finally, 
as they moved about the Vatican, it is said they saw a hen-coop, 
when the guide said, "There, those fowls are all descended from 
the cock that crew the night that Peter betrayed his Lord." Like 
a flash the American turned on him, saying, "What do I care 
where they came from. What I want to know is whether they 

lay." 

A college boy as he gets out into life finds a myriad problems 
to which he must address himself, working out his salvation, 
not by some previously acquired formulae, but by evolution of 
the power within him. There was once a parrot kept at a circus, 
which had been taught to perch by the entrance gate and, as the 
crowd came up, to croak, "Step right up, gentlemen; one at a 
time ; don't crush." One day he was lost and after long search 
was found in a grove near by. surrounded by a flock of crows 
which had plucked off nearly every feather ; but the poor bird 
knew only one phrase and so kept reiterating it, even in his 



76 CLASS OF l882. 

sorry plight, "Step right up, gentlemen ; one at a time ; don't 
crush." We have learned much ; yet we are not to go on repeat- 
ing some pet shibboleth, as if there were nothing more to acquire. 
We should be as far wrong as were those men sent out from 
Boston in the colonial days with instruction to build a road west 
toward Albany, and who returned after extending it some twelve 
miles to report that it had penetrated the wilderness as far as 
it would ever be required. As that road changed, first from a 
winding Indian trail to a well-defined path, and then to a cart- 
road, then to a firmly built turnpike, and at length to an iron 
roadway spanning the continent, so the path of truth is never 
complete. Each of us is ever at work upon it, broadening it, 
extending it, helping to open up the further for mankind the 
wilderness of this life. 

I have been endeavoring to-day to recall a word of Peabody in 
his fine little book, "The Religion of an Educated Man," a word 
defining the scholar. "If there is one mark of the scholar it is 
his childlikeness. Self-importance and self-satisfaction drop 
away from him like the disease of immaturity. He is humbled 
by his tasks and chastened by his ideals. He leaves the conceit 
of learning to those who have not learned the dimensions of 
truth, and, as in the days of Jesus, the poor in spirit inherit 
the kingdom." We welcome the years, for they mean, if we are 
on the right path, more light, a larger outlook, a deeper grip on 
the things that make life worth while. 

Old, — -we are growing old; 
Going up where the sunshine is clear ; 
Watching grander horizons appear 
Out of clouds that enveloped our youth; 
Standing firm on the mountains of truth : 
Because of the glory the years unfold, 
We are joyfully growing old. 

The years are to be marked, also, by devotion to the daily 
task. That task has towered large on the horizon of our twenty- 
five years. It has been the glory of our strength, and, as we have 
companioned with it, more and more it has unfolded to us its 
fascination until, as life has become blended with it and absorbed 
in it, it has gained in its power to inspire us to loftiest aspiration. 
The more thoroughly we have lost ourselves in it have we found 
ourselves. 

Some years ago an Alumni Association of Yale University 
met in one of our New England cities, when one of the speakers 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 7 7 

recalled a set of verses written years before by one of the alumni, 
wonderfully expressive of the Yale "sand" in athletics and its 
application to the larger problems of life: 

"To make the fight, to win it if you can, 
But, win or lose, to prove yourself a man ; 



In college or in world, the rule's the same— 
When once you're in it, always play the game. 

The last unsuspected conquering reserve ; 
The extra pound of muscle, tug of nerve, 

Or grip of brain, 
Has won full many a field 
For men who know not how to yield ; 
No brute triumph this, but rarest psychic force, 
And he who has it always stays the course." 

Again, the years will be marked by a deepening faith: faith 
in life ; that it is worth while ; that the forces for righteousness 
are mightier than the forces for evil : 

"For, fierce though the fiends may fight, 
And long though the angels hide, 
We know that Truth and Right 
Have the universe on their side." 

We are to have such faith in life that we are willing to take it 
as it comes, knowing that wherever our lot is cast it has rich 
gifts to bestow. Henry Van Dyke has put the sentiment for us: 

"Let me but live my life from year to year, 
With forward face and unreluctant soul, 
Not hastening to, nor turning from the goal; 

Not mourning for the things that disappear 

In the dim past, nor looking back in fear 

From what the future veils : but with a whole 
And happy heart, that pays its toll 

To youth and age, and travels on with cheer: 

So let the way wind up the hill or down, 
O'er rough or smooth, the journey will be joy, 
Still seeking what I sought when but a boy, 

New friendships, high adventure, and a crown ; 

I shall grow old, but never lose life's zest, 

Because the road's last turn will be the best." 

We are to have faith in the future, that faith that lies deepest 
in the heart and of which some of us cannot help speaking. It 
is ever on the tongue and in the soul. It was in the first speech 
to-night and in the second ; that faith that takes hold on the 



78 CLASS OF l882. 

eternal, that recognizes the world as God's world and his power 
as ruling- over all, and, because it is God's world and God is love, 
believes that life is bound to grow better and better to the end; 
that exclaims with Browning: 

"Grow old along with me ; 

The best is yet to be, 
The last of life for which the first was made; 

Our times are in His hand 

Who saith, a whole I planned ; 
Youth shows but half ; trust God ; 
See all, nor be afraid." 



It would take the diction of a Thayer or the eloquence of a 
Watters or a Mills to rightly convey to our absent classmates the 
spirit of our twenty-fifth reunion banquet. We have had other 
banquets and enjoyed meeting again the friends of our youth, 
but never have we had such an experience, and it is doubtful 
if any class has had, where our very heart-strings were drawn 
almost to breaking. Occasional bursts of old songs were welcome 
if but to relieve the tension of the hour. Odlin and Jerome were, 
to our great regret, unable to be present, but the toasts of Wat- 
ters, Thayer, and Mills struck such a high tone and so carried 
us along almost spell-bound at their vital power and manly 
genuineness, that had the meeting stopped then and there we 
should all have voted this the climax of a remarkable gathering. 
It was then past midnight, but so greatly had the spirit of the 
place come upon us in its quiet mastery that it was after three 
before a move towards adjournment was made. 

The keynote, perhaps, was interest, — the interest we felt in 
each other, in the class, and in the college. After twenty-five 
years of life, there is no doubt that many were surprised to see 
what a sympathy they discovered for each of the others — men of 
different temperaments and lines of work, but held together by 
the memories of a quarter century ago. If we had been told 
beforehand that we were to be expected to sit for three hours 
and hear the men tell about themselves, we would have protested 
inwardly. But when the fact happened and we can now look 
back upon it, there is not one of us who will not treasure the 
memory of it as one of the great events in his life, and especially 
because, as all of us have found, we can not communicate to a 
strangxr what the meeting: meant to us. 



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80 CLASS OF l882. 

The letters from absent ones, including "Jake," "Howard," and 
Nason, the class standing in reverent silence while the list of our 
dead was pronounced by the faltering Secretary, and the reading 
by Thayer of the Hitchcock memorial — all this made a picture 
and left an impression that time cannot efface. 

But this was not the climax. The third act followed — taken 
from the varied drama of real life. From Albree to Wing each 
in his turn told the story of his deeds ; no vainglorious boasting, 
but plain talk of work, endeavor, aspiration. Often comedy came 
to the front; more often tragedy, heart-rending pathos, back- 
breaking and brain-splitting toil against heavy odds, the struggle 
between life and death, — all simply told as men talk to intimate 
friends; but through it all there ran the victory of convictions 
over opportunism, the dominance of altruism, the triumph of 
character. 

When it was over, the morning sun was lighting up the 
heavens. How we wished that the others might have been with 
us to share in these uplifting hours of our twenty-fifth reunion 
and to take courage as we look forward to another quarter 
century. 



THE HITCHCOCK MEMORIAL 



The Class of Eighteen Hundred and Eighty-Two, of Amherst 
College, assembled for its twenty-fifth reunion, desires to express 
its sense of loss and incompleteness because of the absence in the 
flesh of one who bad joyful expectations of sharing in our com- 
mon greetings, but who, having fought the good fight and having 
kept the faith, suddenly finished his earthly course, all too soon 
for the hearts that loved him and the causes that leaned upon 
him, yet not too soon to have won that crown of life which 
rests upon true affection, self-forgetful service, and honorable 
achievement. 

We deeply mourn the death of Albert Wellman Hitchcock, 
but we are profoundly thankful for the memory of his life and 
death. His unsullied honor and cheerful courage disclose com- 
pleteness of character if not fulness of years. 

We recall at this time the diligent student, the interested 
friend, the loyal classmate of college days. We have joy in 
that full development of all his powers that came with the increas- 
ing years. In spite of the distractions of busy pastorates he 
became a true scholar. His heart was enlarged until he became 
the unselfish and appreciative comrade of all ages and classes. 
His executive ability and civic interest grew in an enlarged work 
of public leadership and administration. 

His name has an honorable place on the rolls of Eighty-Two 
and of Amherst College. His name has been recorded for dis- 
tinguished scholarship on the books of two great universities. 
His name is enrolled among the names of those who have served 
important churches and communities with distinction. His name 
is indelibly inscribed in the great '"Book of Life," for it appears 
upon the tablets of the hearts of strong men who rejoiced in his 
leadership, and of little children who delighted to call him 
friend. We esteem him fortunate in his life as few men have 
been, because by his own faithfulness and loyalty to truth he 
entered fully into the enjoyment of the things of character, of 
service, and of love which were made possible to him. For him- 
self we esteem him not unfortunate in his death, since when all 
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82 CLASS OF l882. 

earthly possessions seemed to be slipping away he had his own 
self for "a better possession, and an abiding one." 

We have been deeply moved and instructed by our knowledge 
of his home life, where from an equal companionship of mind and 
heart truth and grace overflowed to inform and inspire the homes 
built round about. 

To those who knew and loved him beyond all others, we send 
the sympathy of true-hearted men, who, awed by the mystery 
of life and death, yet greet hope with hope, and in the world 
with God rejoice with those who have courage to be thankful 
and unafraid. 

Lucius H. Thayer. 

Walter S. Ufford. 

William F. Stearns. 

James W. Bixler. 



Resolutions Adopted by the Central Church, Worcester, 

Mass., upon the Death of the Pastor, Rev. Dr. 

Albert Wellman Hitchcock. 

We, the people of the Central church and society in Worcester, 
do hereby record our deep sorrow and profound sense of loss in 
the death of Albert Wellman Hitchcock, beloved pastor, teacher, 
friend. To the people of this church he was "a living epistle, 
known and read of all men." To him Christianity was not a 
formula, but a life. He never ceased to be an earnest student. 
Glad to hold fast that which is good in the teaching of the past, 
his face was ever toward the future and his eye was keen in the 
search for what the new day might reveal of God's way with men. 
Loyalty to Christ and an uncompromising idealism were the 
dominant notes of his preaching. 

But his daily walk and conversation were his best sermon. 
The hearts of little children opened wide to him. To young men 
he was an ardent and inspiring comrade. In the lowly and 
degraded he kindled hope and courage ; to those bearing the heat 
and burden of the day he was a fellow-laborer in the vineyard, 
heartening others by his own unflagging zeal. To the unfortu- 
nate he came as a sympathetic friend. To suffering and to the 
aged he brought consolation and cheer. He knew disappointment 



AMHERST ( OLLEGE. 83 

and discouragement among us, yet he held himself to his task 
with faith and with splendid fortitude. Perhaps from his own 
burden-bearing he learned his rare touch in easing the burdens 
of others. His glad ministry knew no trammels of race or of 
creed. 

His helpfulness was felt far beyond the bounds of our church. 
He was a valiant fighter for civic righteousness in Worcester. 
Clear of insight, responsive to all worthy appeals, he was eager 
to cooperate in every good word and work for this city of his 
pride. He was a lover of peace, and his simplicity and candor 
taught men to forget their differences in common devotion* to 
high ideals and noble purposes. 

Our hearts go out in sympathy to his wife and children in their 
deep affliction. His presence was a rich blessing, his memory 
is a priceless heritage. The beauty of their life together has 
endeared them to all this people, and in this hour of sorrow 
they must feel themselves upborne by the love of this entire 
community which mourns with them. 

Length of days is no measure of the fulness or efficiency of 
a life. In six brief years Albert Wellman Hitchcock gave of him- 
self without stint in loving service of this church and city. The 
alabaster box now is broken. The very precious ointment is 
poured out. Who shall say: "To what purpose is this waste?" 
Central church is filled with the odor of the ointment. Words 
are no fitting memorial for such a service. It is for us to carry 
forward the work for which he gave his very life. His true 
memorial shall be read in the loyalty with which we rally to his 
clarion call, which even Death could not silence : "Tell my church 
to go on, and up, and out, in the way of Christ." 



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CLASS OF l882. 






FRANKLIN ROSWELL ALLEN. 



THE MEN OF '82 



FRANKLIN ROSWELL ALLEN, ESQ., 

Glencoe, 
McLeod County, Minn. 

Franklin Roswell Allen was born in Prescott, Mass., 
August 16, i860; was fitted for college at Wesleyan Academy, 
Wilbraham, Mass., and was graduated from Amherst College. 
After graduation he went West, studied law, and was admitted 
to the bar in the State of Minnesota in May, 1884. He has 
resided for twenty years or more in Glencoe, and has there fol- 
lowed his profession. On September 14, 1887, he married Anna 
M. Johns of Glencoe. Mrs. Allen died December 10, 1907. Mr. 
Allen often comes East on business and was present with us at 
our fifteenth reunion. In college he was given many honors by 
the class, largely on account of his genial nature and sparkling 
wit. He was our toastmaster at our Senior Class Dinner in 
Holyoke on June 29, 1882. 



86 



CLASS OF l882. 




FREDERICK ARND. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 87 



FREDERICK ARND, ESQ., 

Evanston, 740 The Rookery, 

Illinois. Chicago, Illinois. 

Frederick Arnd was born at Bath, Steuben County, New 
York, December 7, 1861. He prepared for college at the Haver- 
ling Free Academy, Bath, and was graduated from Amherst. 
While in college he was a member of the College baseball and 
football teams, and was captain of the football team during 
senior year. 

He was admitted to the bar of Illinois, October, 1884, and 
associated himself with his brother, Charles Arnd, Esq. 
(Amherst '75). He was engaged in general legal practice in 
Chicago till April, 1906, when he gave up general practice to 
become general counsel for the John M. Ewen Company of 
Chicago. Mr. Arnd has been alderman of Evanston from 1901 
to the present time. He was one of the organizers of the Glen 
View Golf Club, and is a member of the Evanston Golf Club, 
the Country Club, and the Evanston Club. 

Mr. Arnd has married twice : to Anna Morgan of Sheffield, 
Illinois, December 30, 1885, who died in February, 1887, and to 
Blanche Bannister Bremond of Evanston on June 1, 1892. 

Mr. Arnd was a member of Delta Upsilon. 



CLASS OF l882. 




Phot, by Harris & Ewing. 
FREDERIC BANCROFT. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 



FREDERIC BANCROFT, Ph.D., LL.D., 

The Metropolitan Club, 
Washington, D. C. 

Frederic- Bancroft was born October 30, i860, in Galesburg, 
111. Having fitted for college at Knox Academy, in his native 
town, he entered Knox College, where he passed three years of 
his college course. Entering Amherst College as a Senior in 
September, 1881, he was graduated the following June. Pursu- 
ing his studies in the Columbia University School of Political 
Science, he received from that institution in 1885 the degree of 
Ph.D. He spent over two years studying history, diplomacy, 
and political economy at Gottingen, Freiburg (Baden) and in 
the Ecole des Sciences Politiques, Paris. He lectured on the 
political history of the Civil War and Reconstruction at Amherst 
in 1888. In the same year he was appointed Librarian of the 
Department of State, and he also lectured on diplomatic and 
political history at Columbia, Johns Hopkins, and Chicago Uni- 
versities, serving in the latter institution in the place of Von 
Hoist, who had a leave of absence on account of illness. He has 
contributed to most of the leading reviews and magazines; was 
a delegate to the Paris Congress of Historians in 1900; gave 
several courses of lectures at the Lowell Institute, Boston, in 
1902-3, on "Life in the South During the Civil War." He is 
the author of "The Negro in Politics," "Life of William H. 
Seward," and "A History of the Confederacy." Of late he has 
been at work upon life in the South before the war, and has had 
much to do upon the unfinished memoirs of Carl Schurz. In 
college he took the Hyde Prize, and was a member of Alpha 
Delta Phi. Knox College has given him the degree of LL.D. 
Dr. Bancroft is unmarried. 



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CLASS OF l882. 





GEORGE E. BELLOWS. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 9 1 



GEORGE E. BELLOWS, M.D., 

429 Rialto Building, 
Kansas City, Mo. 

George E. Bellows was born in Galesburg, 111., October 30, 
1 861. He prepared for college in Knox Academy, spent three 
years in Knox College in his native city, entered Amherst in 
the fall of 1 88 1, and was graduated in the following June. He 
studied medicine, 1882-1885, m tne College of Physicians and 
Surgeons, New York City, and was graduated in 1885. Amherst 
College gave him the degree of M.A. the same year. He spent 
one year in post-graduate and hospital work and another year 
in Berlin and Vienna. His practice is now limited to diseases 
of the eye. He is a member of the Jackson County Medical 
Society, the Kansas City Academy of Medicine, Missouri State 
Medical Association, American Medical Society, and American 
Association of Railway Surgeons. He is Clinical Professor of 
the Diseases of the Eye in the University Medical College, 
Oculist to St. Margaret's Hospital, the Union Pacific Railway, 
the Chicago and Alton Railway, and the Rock Island Railway 
Company. His papers have appeared in various medical 
journals. 

He was married on October 29, 1887, to Stella A. Ferris of 
Riverside, Cal. There are two children : Warren S. Bellows, 
born August 15, 1889. and Sabra Julia Bellows, born November 
4, 1 901. 



9 2 



CLASS OF l882. 





JAMES W. BIXLER. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 93 



REV. JAMES W. BIXLER, D.D., 

11 Broad St., 
New London, Conn. 

James Wilson Bixler was born in Hanover, Penn., Febru- 
ary 28, 1861, the oldest child of David D. and Almira (Wilson) 
Bixler. He was fitted for college in Dickinson Seminary, Wil- 
liamsport, Penn., and was graduated from Amherst with honors. 
From 1882 to 1884 he was principal of the Glastonbury (Conn.) 
Academy. From 1884 to 1888 he was a student of theology at 
Yale, receiving the degree of B.D. in 1887. He was Hooker 
Fellow at Yale in 1887-8. In the same year he was a member 
of the editorial staff of the Sunday School Times. From 1888 to 
1889 ne was pastor's assistant in the First Church of Christ, 
Hartford; and from 1889 to 1891 he was pastor of the North 
Church, Haverhill, Mass. Since 1891 he has been pastor of 
the Second Congregational Church of New London, Conn. He 
received the degree of A.M. from Amherst in 1887, and the 
degree of D.D. from Roanoke in 1903. He is an overseer of 
the Charity Fund of Amherst College, a trustee of the Smith 
Memorial Home of New London, a trustee of Man waring 
Memorial Hospital of New London, and a corporate member 
A. B. C. F. M. 

He married (1) Elizabeth J. Seelye, August 4, 1891, who 
died April 10, 1894, leaving one son, Julius Seelye, born April 
4, 1894; and (2) Mabel Seelye, September 7, 1898 (both 
daughters of the late President Julius H. Seelye of Amherst Col- 
lege), from which marriage there are two children: Elizabeth, 
born October 29, 1899 ; and James Wilson, 2d, born October 6, 
1902. 

Mr. Bixler was a member of Psi Upsilon, and a class monitor. 



94 



CLASS OF l882. 




PAUL BLATCHFORD. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 95 



PAUL BLATCHFORD, 

1524 Tribune Building, 
Chicago, 111. 

Paul Blatchford was born in Chicago, July 18, 1859. He 
was fitted for college in the "Boys' Higher School" of Chicago, 
and received the degree of A.B. from Amherst College. After 
leaving college he became secretary and assistant manager of the 
E. W. Blatchford & Company, Inc., Chicago, 111. His father, 
the president of the company, was long known for his active 
work on behalf of missions. Since 1890 Mr. Blatchford has 
been connected with organizations of manufacturers and 
employers. He has had much to do in managing trade matters ; 
and as far as local organizations are concerned, he has been busily 
engaged on labor matters, having handled in the past four or five 
years upwards of two hundred and fifty strikes and labor con- 
troversies. He is a member of the University Club, the West- 
ward Ho Golf Club, the Caxton Club, and the Illinois Society 
of Mayflower Descendants, of which latter society he was 
governor during 1907- 1908. He is a member of the Sons of 
Colonial Wars in the State of Illinois, and also of the Sons of the 
American Revolution in the State of Illinois. His home is in 
Oak Park. 

On May 24, 1886, he married Frances Veazie Lord of Bangor, 
Me. They have four children : John, born April 20, 1888 
(Amherst 1910) ; Dorothy Lord, born December 10, 1889; 
Barbara, born September 14, 1894; Charles Lord, born Febru- 
ary 12, 1897. 

Mr. Blatchford was an enthusiastic wheelman, and a member 
of Alpha Delta Phi. 



9 6 



CLASS OF l882. 




HOWARD SWEETSER BLISS. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 97 



PRESIDENT HOWARD SWEETSER BLISS, D.D., 

Syrian Protestant College, 
Beirut, Syria. 

Howard Sweetser Bliss was born on Mount Lebanon, Syria, 
December 6, i860, the second son of Rev. Daniel Bliss, D.D., 
Amherst College '52. He prepared for college at Amherst High 
School and with a private tutor. Upon leaving college he taught 
for two years in Washburn College, Topeka, Kans. He entered 
Union Theological Seminary, New York City, in 1884, graduat- 
ing in 1887. He took the Prize Fellowship at the Seminary and 
spent a year at Oxford University, studying especially at 
Mansfield College ; later he spent a second year in Germany, 
studying at Gottingen and Berlin Universities. In 1889 he 
became assistant pastor of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, N. Y., 
being ordained in 1890. 

He married Amy Blatchford, sister of Blatchford '82. They 
have five children: Mary Williams, born November 16, 1890; 
Margaret Blatchford, born January 21, 1893; Alice Wood, born 
November 16, 1894; Daniel, born March 15, 1898; Howard 
Huntington, born April 12, 1903. He remained at Plymouth 
Church five years. 

He was pastor of the Christian Union Congregational Church, 
Upper Montclair, N. J., 1894-1902. He became president of 
the Syrian Protestant College, Beirut, Syria, in 1902, in succes- 
sion to his father. He was trustee of Amherst College 1900- 
1902, and received the degree of D.D. from New York Uni- 
versity and from Amherst College in 1902. 

The Syrian Protestant College is a Christian missionary, but 
undenominational, unsectarian institution, founded in 1866. 
In 1906-1907 nearly nine hundred students were enrolled in 
its various departments : Preparatory, Collegiate, Commercial, 
Pharmacy, Medical, Training School for Nurses. The campus 
extends over forty acres, upon which there are fourteen build- 
ings. The language of instruction is English and there are 
nearly sixty professors, officers and teachers. 

Dr. Bliss was a member of Alpha Delta Phi, and a class 
monitor. 



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CLASS OF l882. 




ENOCH HALE BURT. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 99 



REV. E. H. BURT, 

Ivoryton, Conn. 
Enoch Hale Burt was born May 9, 1858, in Westhampton, 
Mass. He was prepared for college in Williston Seminary, and 
received the degree of A.B. from Amherst College in 1882. He 
studied theology from 1882 to 1885 at Yale Theological Semi- 
nary, and was graduated with the degree of B.D. He received 
the degree of ALA. from Amherst in the same year. After 
a post-graduate course of one year at Andover Theological 
Seminary, he was called to the Congregational Church in 
Armada, Mich., where he labored until 1889. He was pastor in 
West Winfield, N. Y., from 1889 to 1898, and he has been in 
Ivoryton since that time. 

He was married on October 26, 1886, to Emily Meekins, 
daughter of the Rev. William F. Arms of Sunderland, Mass. 
There are three daughters: Emily Rose, born October 16, 1887; 
Lilian Sarah, born October 7, 1888, both juniors in Mount 
Holyoke College; and Katharine Isabel, born April 5, 1890, a 
freshman in Mount Holyoke College. 

Mr. Burt was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. 



CLASS OF l882. 




ASAHEL NESMITH BUSH. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. IOI 



A. N. BUSH, 
Salem, Oregon. 

Asahel Nesmith Bush was born in Salem, Oregon, Janu- 
ary 25, 1858. He was fitted for college in his native city and in 
Amherst, and was graduated from Amherst College in 1882. 
Since graduation he has resided in Salem, and has made frequent 
trips to the East on business and pleasure. His father is still 
living, hale and hearty at eighty-three, and still attends to his 
daily business. Mr. Bush is a private banker and has been 
instrumental in building up his city and state. A Democrat in 
politics, living in a Republican section, he has not been officially 
active in public affairs, although he has occupied public office 
with credit. 

On February 10, 1886, he married Lulu M. Hughes of Salem. 
They have one son, Asahel, born January 18, 1887 (Amherst 
1909). 

Mr. Bush was a member of Psi Upsilou, manager of the base 
ball team in '82, and largely interested in buying and developing 
a new athletic field for the College. 



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CLASS OF l882. 




GEORGE VAN SANTVOORD CAMP. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 1 03 



GEORGE V. S. CAMP, 

Jefferson County National Bank, 
Watertown, N. Y. 

George Van Santvoord Camp was born in Watertown, N. Y., 
December 9, i860. He was fitted for college in Mt. Pleasant 
Academy, Sing Sing, N. Y., and was graduated from Amherst. 
Soon after leaving Amherst he began to work in the Jefferson 
County National Bank; he served for a number of years as 
assistant cashier, and in August, 1907, was made cashier. 

On February 26, 1888, he married Elizabeth F. Knowlton of 
Watertown. The children are Paul Van Santvoord, born Janu- 
ary 24, 1890; Henry Sewall, born January 6, 1893, died August 
22, 1902; Frances Knowlton, born August 17, 1898; and 
Elizabeth, born June 3, 1900. 

While in college Mr. Camp was college organist, class pianist, 
and leader of the Glee Club. He was a member of Delta Upsilon. 

Mr. Camp still retains his love for the organ, officiating as 
organist in his church. 



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CLASS OF l882. 




GEORGE NESBITT COWAN. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 1 05 

GEORGE N. COWAN, ESQ., 
Delevan, N. Y. 

George Nesbitt Cowan was born in Stamford, N. Y., and was 
fitted for college in the Delaware Academy and Stamford 
Seminary. He received the degree of A.B. from Amherst in 
1882, and M.A. in 1887. He studied law and was admitted to 
the bar April 25, 1885. His specialty is corporation law and 
water works construction. He has been engaged in organizing 
water companies and constructing water works, in which busi- 
ness he is attorney, engineer, and contractor, besides holding the 
office of president, director, or secretary in the various com- 
panies. Beginning in 1885, he has promoted the following com- 
panies : The Cattaraugus Water Company, Cattaraugus, N. Y. ; 
The Cadossa Water Company, Cadossa, N. Y. ; The Hancock 
Water Company, Hancock, N. Y. ; The Yorkshire Water Com- 
pany, Yorkshire Centre, N. Y. ; The Sinclairville Water Com- 
pany, Sinclairville, N. Y. ; Hobart Water Company, Hobart, 
N. Y. ; Worcester Water Company, Worcester, N. Y. ; Living- 
stone Manor Water Company, N. Y. ; Liberty Water Company, 
Liberty, X. Y. ; Bliss, Wyoming County, N. Y., Water Com- 
pany ; Arcade Water Company, Arcade, N. Y. ; Sandusky Water 
Company, N. Y. He has franchises in several other towns, 
but is delaying construction on account of high prices of material 
and labor. 

On December 23, 1884, he married Jessie B. Gillespie of 
Stamford, N. Y. They have had one child, Jesse Gillespie, born 
January 26, 1886. 

On May 8, 1894, Mr. Cowan was taken ill with diphtheria at 
Binghamton, and spent six months in the hospital. He was 
left with a slight paralysis of the feet and hands, from which 
he recovered after several years. Two weeks after he was taken 
ill his wife was stricken with the same disease, and died May 
25, 1894. His son died January 29, 1901, two days after an 
operation for appendicitis. He was prepared to enter Amherst 
in the fall. 

Mr. Cowan has recently organized The Record and Advertiser 
at Delevan, N. Y., and is giving his attention to that publication 
and to his legal and engineering practice while waiting for 
favorable times for further construction. 



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JOHN PEARSONS CUSHING. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 107 



JOHN P. CUSHING, 

New Haven High School, 
New Haven, Conn. 

John Pearsons Cushing was born September 5, 1861, in 
Lansing-burgh, N. Y. ; was fitted for college in the high school 
of Lynn, Mass.; studied two years in Boston University; 
entered the Junior Class of Amherst in September, 1880, and 
was graduated in 1882. In 1885 he received from Amherst the 
degree M.A. He taught for ten years in the Holyoke High 
School, for the last three years as vice-principal. In 1892-1894 
he was a student at the University of Leipzig, receiving the 
degree of Ph.D. From 1894 to 1900 he was professor of 
economics and history in Knox College, Galesburg, 111 ; and 
since 1900 he has been in New Haven, at first as principal of the 
Hillhouse High School, and later, upon the consolidation of that 
school with the Boardman Manual Training High School, as 
head master of the New Haven High School. 

On June 25, 1890, he married Alice Blyth Bullions of Lan- 
singburgh, N. Y. They have had one child, Lucy Eddy, born 
November 26, died November 29, 1891. 

In Boston University he became a member of Beta Theta Pi 
and has been Secretarv of the Class since graduation. 



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EDWARD PARRISH DRAPER. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 1 09 

E. P. DRAPER, 
Cananea, Mexico. 

Edward Parrish Draper was born in New York City, 
December 2, i860. He was prepared for college in Canandaigua 
Academy, and received the degree of A.B. from Amherst College 
in 1882. After an engagement with the Holyoke Machine Com- 
pany, he became junior partner of the firm of Dryland and 
Draper, manufacturers of fire hydrants. The firm was changed 
later to a corporation, of which Mr. Draper was treasurer. In 
1889 he sold his interest in this corporation and devoted himself 
to the sale of patented spinning machinery. He sold his Ameri- 
can and Canadian rights, and for three years devoted himself to 
this work in England and France. Later he took charge of the 
Boston Car Wheel Company's business in Boston, and after a 
year was transferred to Pittsburg to take charge of the Pittsburg 
Car Wheel Company. After a year in this city and a few months 
in Cleveland, he was obliged to give up work on account of poor 
health, and spent several years at his old home in Canandaigua, 
New York. Later he had charge of the water works at Green 
Island, New York, but was obliged to give up on account of his 
health. A bicycle trip in Europe gave him a fair return to 
health, and he went to Cananea in the early days of the Camp. 
But his old trouble returned, and he was obliged to leave. He 
lived three years in Tombstone, Arizona, and was successful in 
dropping money in mining. For a part of the time he served as 
deputy sheriff. When his health was completely restored he 
returned to Cananea. This was in 1904, and at present he is 
superintendent of public service for the Greene-Cananea Copper 
Company. This means that he is in charge of the rental of all 
their buildings, the sale of lands, the management of the electric 
light, water, and telephone systems in a camp of about 30,000 
people. He is also interested in several mining properties. Mr. 
Draper is unmarried. In college Mr. Draper was prominent in 
athletics, and a member of Chi Phi. 



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CLASS OF 1552. 





FREDERICK WILLIAM ELY. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 



F. W. ELY, 

Columbian Mfg. Co., 
Greenville, N. H. 

Frederick William Ely was born in Lowell, Mass., Decem- 
ber 3, i860. He was prepared for college in the Lowell High 
School, and was graduated from Amherst in 1882. After gradu- 
ation he went into a cotton mill as day laborer. He was gradu- 
ally advanced until he became assistant superintendent and later 
superintendent of the Tremont and Suffolk Mills, Lowell, manu- 
facturers of colored cotton goods. In 1890 he received the 
appointment of agent of Falls Mills, Norwich, Conn. He held 
that position for three years, and in 1893 was appointed to his 
present position, agent of the Columbian Manufacturing Com- 
pany. 

On September 21, 1887, he married Bertha Comins Shattuck 
of Lowell. They have two children: Joseph Shattuck, born 
September 25, 1888; and Richard Sanford, born July 8, 1898. 
Mr. Ely was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. 



CLASS OF l882. 






FREDERICK WILLIAM GREENE. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 113 



REV. F. W. GREENE, 

Middletown, Conn. 

Frederick William Greene was born in Brattleboro, Vt., 
November 29, 1859. He was fitted for college under the direc- 
tion of a tutor and in the Brattleboro High School. He received 
the degree of B.A. from Amherst College in 1882. From 1882 
to 1885 he studied theology in the Hartford Theological Semi- 
nary; and after receiving the degree B.D., entered the ministry 
in September, 1885. For a number of years he was pastor of 
the West Congregational Church, Andover, Mass. ; and for 
the past thirteen years has been pastor in Middletown. 

On June 4, 1885, he married Eliza Ferrar Walter of New 
Britain, Conn. They have six children : Theodore Ainsworth, 
born January 12, 1890 (ready for Amherst in 1908) ; Walter 
Ferrar, born April 25, 1892 ; Anna Bancroft, born February 
27, 1894; Dorothy Minot, born July 4, 1896; Frederick Stand- 
ish, born May 2, 1898; William Ainsworth, born February 
5, 1901. 

Mr. Greene was a member of Alpha Delta Phi. 

His summer home is in Jaffrey, N. H. 



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WILLIAM STORRS GREENE. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 115 



W. S. GREENE, M.A., 

95 Westford Street, 
Lowell, Mass. 

William Storrs Greene was born in Hatfield, Mass., March 
5, i860. He was fitted for college in the Lowell High School; 
remained a year at Middlebury College, and received the degree 
of B.A. from Amherst College in 1882. In 1885 he received from 
the College the degree of M.A. He has been master of the 
Moody Grammar School in Lowell since 1883. He has traveled 
extensively in the western part of the United States, in Alaska, 
and in the principal countries of Europe. 

In 1895 he married Ruth Andrews Newcomb of Albany, N. Y. 
They have two children: Ruth Newcomb, born December 15, 
1896; and John Morton, Jr., born December 9, 1897. 

Mr. Greene was a member of Chi Psi. 



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CLASS OF l882. 




EDSON DWINELL HALE. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 117 



E. D. HALE, M.A., 
Vacaville, Cal. 

Edson Dwinell Hale was born in Lyndon, Vermont, Janu- 
ary 10, 1859. He was prepared for college in the St. Johnsbury 
Academy, and was graduated from Amherst College in 1882. 
He was teacher of Greek and English in Hopkins Academy, 
Oakland, Cal. (1882-86), and teacher of English and Elocution 
in Bellevue Academy, Lngonia, California (1886-7). He 
studied theology in the Pacific Seminary, Oakland (1885-8) ; 
received the degree of B.D., and was ordained October 22, 1888. 
He received in 1888 from Amherst College the degree of M.A. 
He was pastor of the Congregational Church in Clayton (1888- 
1891).. Later he lived at Redlands, regaining his health. After 
a pastorate in Niles, he became principal of the high school in 
Vacaville, where he now resides. He is the author of "The 
History of San Bernardina County" (72 pp.). 

On February 21, 1888, he married Lucy Mooar of Oakland. 
Their children are: Mary Gilman, born December 11, 1889; 
Agnes Sarah, born January 6, 1891, died July I, 1891 ; Elizabeth 
Comstock, born February 18, 1892, died June 6, 1893 > Helen 
Norton, born May 21, 1894; Lucy Dwinell, born February 21, 
1898. 

Mr. Hale was a member of Torch and Crown (later Beta 
Theta Pi). 



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CLASS OF l882. 




GEORGE ATWATER HALL. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. TI 9 



REV. GEORGE A. HALL, 

15 Hedge Road, 
Brookline, Mass. 

George At water Hall was born in Northampton, Mass., 
October 19, 1859. He was fitted for college in the Northampton 
High School, and received the degree of B.A. from Amherst 
College. He studied theology in the Hartford Theological Semi- 
nary from 1882 to 1886 and entered the ministry in 1886. For 
twenty years he was the honored and beloved pastor of the Old 
South Congregational Church in Peabody, Mass. Much against 
the wishes of his parish he resigned in 1906, and spent a year in 
travel. His temporary address is given above, although he is 
planning to take up active church work again in the near future. 
He has been appointed a member of the Prudential Committee of 
the American Board. 

On May 2, 1888. he married Sarah Cooley of Hartford, 
Conn. Their children are: Clarissa Merwin, born January 27, 
1889; Francis Cooley, born March 15, 1890; Robert Gordon, 
born March 20, 1891, died August 15, 189 1 ; Gordon Rexford, 
born June 30, 1893 ; Merwin Porter, born April 5, 1895 ; George 
Phillips, born February 16, 1899. 

In College Mr. Hall was a member of Chi Psi, and a member 
of the College choir and Glee Club. 



CLASS OF 1882. 






JOHN QUINCY HAYWARD. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 



J. QUINCY HAYWARD, 

367 Main Street, 
Woburn, Mass. 

John Quincy Hayward was born in Boxboro, Mass., Sep- 
tember 25, 1855. He was fitted for college in Lawrence Acad- 
emy, Groton, Mass., and was graduated from Amherst in 1882. 
He was principal of the high school in Bolton, Mass. (1883-4) ; 
principal of Center School, Cheshire, Conn. (1884-5) > prin- 
cipal of high school, Mendon, Mass. (1886-7) ; principal of high 
school, Sutton, Mass. (1887-8) ; principal of Lawrence Acad- 
emy, Groton, Mass. (1889) ; principal of high school, North 
Chelmsford, Mass. (1891-2). He has been associate editor of 
The Times, Bellows Falls, Vt., and of the Bunker Hill Times, 
Boston, Mass. Since 1892 he has been in mercantile business in 
Boston. In 1885 he received from Amherst College the degree 
M.A. 

On June 27, 1895, he married Ada Maria Sheldon of North 
Chelmsford, Mass., a graduate of the Salem Normal School and 
for several years teacher in Needham. Their children are : 
Helen, born April 10, 1896; and Sheldon Conant, born July 17, 
1899. Mrs. Hayward died November 25, 1902. 



CLASS OF l882. 




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JOHN HOWARD HOBBS. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. I 23 



REV. J. H. HOBBS, M.A. 

25 Clinton Avenue, 
Jamaica, N. Y. City. 

John Howard Hobbs was born in Lenox, Choctaw Nation, 
Indian Territory, April 2, 1858. He prepared for college at the 
Amherst High School, and was graduated from Amherst Col- 
lege in 1882. He studied theology in the Hartford Theological 
Seminary, graduating in 1885 with the degree of B.D., and at 
once became pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Green- 
wich, Conn., where he remained until December, 1889. He was 
then called to the First Presbyterian Church of Jamaica, N. Y., 
one of the oldest churches in America, where he has remained 
ever since. In 1902 he received the degree of M.A. from 
Amherst College. He has been a contributor to various 
religious periodicals and papers. In 1901 his church sent him 
abroad, where he traveled extensively, and has since lectured 
widely upon his travels and upon the Southern mountain whites. 
He is now engaged in erecting a large church plant on modern 
lines, and has just organized the fourth church as a colony 
from the parent church. 

On January 11, 1886, he was married to Clara M. Macfarland 
of Greenwich, Conn., a graduate of Smith College in 1885. They 
have two children: Harold Wade, a junior in Amherst College, 
born January 9, 1887; and Helen Louise, born November 2$, 

1893- 

Mr. Hobbs was a member of Chi Phi. 



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CLASS OF 1882. 





SAMUEL ANTON HOWARD. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 125 



S. A. HOWARD, 

Vermont Marble Co., 
Rutland, Vt. 

Samuel Anton Howard was born in Perry Center, N. Y.. 
March 13, 1858. He was prepared for college in the Warsaw 
Union School, Warsaw, N. Y., and was graduated from Amherst 
College in 1882. After a short trip West, he went to Rutland. 
Vt., where he has since been employed by the Vermont Marble 
Company. He is now one of the managers of the company, and 
divides his time among the quarries and mills of Center Rut- 
land, West Rutland, Proctor, and other places. 

On May 20, 1890, he married Estelle Bartlett of Warsaw. 
N. Y. Their children are : Myron Bartlett, born October 18, 
1892 ; and Samuel Anton, Jr., born June 3, 1894. 

Mr. Howard was a member of Chi Psi. 



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CLASS OF l882. 





CHARLES PHILLIPS HUNT. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. I 27 



CHARLES P. HUNT, 

21 Russell Street, 
Worcester, Mass. 

Charles Phillips Hunt was born in Worcester, Mass., 
February 10, i860. He was prepared for college in the 
Worcester High School, and was graduated from Amherst Col- 
lege in 1882. Since then his home has been in Worcester, where 
for several years he was engaged in banking business. For the 
past year he has been in very poor health, and has been com- 
pelled to relinquish his work. 

Mr. Hunt is unmarried. 



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CLASS OF l882. 




LEWIS STRONG JUDD. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 12Q 



L. S. JUDD, 

Astor Library, 
New York, N. Y. 

Lewis Strong Judd, the son of Lewis Strong and Nancy 
Jane (Tripp) Judd, was born in Fairhaven, March i, 1858. 
He was prepared for college in Friends' Academy, New Bed- 
ford, Mass., and was a member of the Class of '82 of Amherst 
College. He was unable, through ill health, to complete the 
course with the class, but by his successful work he received, in 
1884, the degree of B.A. (extra ordinem). On November 1, 
1884, he entered upon work in the Astor (New York Public) 
Library, and has been there over twenty-three years. He has 
written much in prose and verse, his most important production 
being "The History of Fairhaven, Massachusetts," in "The 
History of Bristol County." 

Mr. Judd is unmarried. 



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CLASS OF l882. 




JAMES H. KNAPP. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 131 



JAMES H. KNAPP, 
Franklin, Mass. 

James H. Knapp was born June 7, 1857, in Worcester, Mass. 
He was prepared for college in the Franklin High School, and 
was graduated from Amherst in 1882. In 1882-3 he was prin- 
cipal of the high school in Cabot, Vt. ; and in 1883-4 principal 
of the high school in Petersham, Mass. He taught school for 
two years after leaving Amherst in 1882, then served as confiden- 
tial clerk for Edgar K. Ray of Franklin for eight years until 
the incorporation of the Elm Farm Milk Company. This cor- 
poration was formed for the purpose of contracting for milk 
in Connecticut and Southeastern Massachusetts and disposing of 
the same in the city of Boston. He has been treasurer and 
manager for this company from its formation until the present 
time. 

On February 26, 1890, he married Lucy J. Brackett of Lan- 
caster, N. H. They have three children: Gertrude Emerson, 
born March 18, 1891 ; Elizabeth Goddard, born August 30, 
1894; and Helen Brackett, born August 31, 1896. 

Mr. Knapp was a member of Psi Upsilon. 



132 



CLASS OF 1882. 






GEORGE OLIVER CROCKER LAWRENCE. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 133 



GEO. O. C. LAWRENCE, 

Rio Chana, San Fernando, 
Buenos Aires, S. A. 

George Oliver Crocker Lawrence, the son of Rev. Amos 
E. and Ann Crocker, was born in South Britain, Conn., May 
10. i860. He was fitted for college in the high school, Newton, 
Mass., and was graduated from Amherst in 1882. He was a 
student in chemistry in the University of Gottingen, Germany 
(1882-4), also at Berlin. He was instructor in chemistry in 
Tufts College, 1884-5. Since 1885 he has traveled widely in 
Europe and South America ; and has resided in Buenos Aires. 
Mr. Lawrence is a capitalist of large means and ability, as is 
shown by his liberal investments in the Argentine Republic. The 
intervals between business and travel are still occupied by work 
in his chemical laboratory ; and his interest in the science has 
led him to establish a prize in Colgate University. For several 
years he was at Tigre, near Buenos Aires, engaged in the fruit 
canning business. He has since been ranching on an island up 
the Parana river. He has also business interests in Buenos 
Aires, including glass works. 

On December 14, 1887, he married Ida Burn of Hamilton, 
N. Y. He has a daughter, Gladys Crocker, born June 1, 1890. 
Mrs. Lawrence died in Vienna, while traveling, May 18, 1900. 
In December, 1906, Mr. Lawrence married Miss Englander, an 
English lady. 



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CLASS OF l882. 




JOHN H. LOVELL. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 135 

JOHN H. LOVELL, 

Waldoboro, Me. 

John H. Lovell was born October 21, i860, in Waldoboro, 
Me. He was prepared for college under a private tutor, and was 
graduated from Amherst in 1882. For a year and a half he 
taught the natural sciences in the Classical Institute, Norridge- 
wock, Me. His father's health failing, he returned to Waldo- 
boro to assist in caring for his various investments. 

His time is divided between the care of private business 
interests and the study of the ecological relations of plants and 
insects. The biological course of instruction and the days 
devoted to field work in the region around Amherst are among 
the pleasantest recollections of his college life. Subsequently, 
while engaged in teaching he continued his observations and col- 
lections, and a little later contributed many articles on Natural 
History, intended for the general scientific reader, to Popular 
Science News, Applctons Popular Science Monthly, the Port- 
land Transcript, etc. It was not, however, until 1897 that he 
began investigating the ecology of plants, a line of work he has 
continued to the present time. His first strictly technical paper, 
''The Fertilization of Alnus incana and Salix discolor," was 
published in the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, and 
attracted the favorable notice of Dr. S. Nawaschin of the Uni- 
versity of Kiel, Russia. Since then he has made many original 
observations upon the floroecology of northern plants, their man- 
ner of pollination and the distribution of flower colors. Of those 
who have expressed appreciation of his work he mentions 
only Dr. Ernst Loew of Berlin, the most eminent of living 
floroecologists. 

A list of his papers up to 1903, essentially as published in the 
bibliography of Knuth's "Handbook of Flower Pollination," 
Vol. I, is as follows : 

"Fertilization of Alnus incana and Salix discolor." Bull. Tor- 
rey Bot. CI., New York, xxiv, 1897, pp. 264-5. 



136 CLASS OF 1882. 

"Petals and the visits of bees." (Pyrus communis.) Asa Gray 
Bull. Takoma Park (D. C), vi, 1898, pp. 17-18.— Ab. : Justs 
bot. Jahresber., Leipzig, xxvi (1898), 1900, p. 413. 

"Three fluvial flowers and their visitors." (Nymphaea advena, 
Sagittaria latifolia, Pontederia cor data.) Op. cit, vi, 1898, pp. 
60-5. — Ab. : Justs bot. Jahresber., Leipzig, xxvi (1898), 1900, 
pp. 412-3. 

"The insect-visitors of flowers." {Gaultheria, Chelone, Impa- 
tiens biflora, Cornus, Aralia.) Bull. Torrey Bot. CI., New York, 
xxv, 1898, pp. 382-90. — Ab. : Justs bot. Jahresber., Leipzig, xxvi 
(1898), 1900, p. 413. 

"The visitors of the Caprifoliaceae." Amer. Nat., Boston, 
xxxiv, 1900, pp. 37-51. 

"The insect-visitors of Iris versicolor." Asa Gray Bull. 
Takoma Park (D. C.), vii, 1899, PP- 47-5°- — Ab. : Justs bot. 
Jahresber., Leipzig, xxvii (1899), 1901, pp. 455-6. 

"The colors of northern monocotyledonous flowers." Amer. 
Nat., Boston, xxxiii, 1899, pp. 493-504. — Ab. : Justs bot. Jahres- 
ber., Leipzig, xxvii (1899), IO /Oi, PP- 455-6. 

"The colors of Northern Apetalous flowers." Op. cit., xxxv, 
1901, pp. 197-212. 

"The colors of Northern polypetalous flowers." Op. cit., 
xxxvi, 1902, pp. 203-40. 

"The colors of Northern gamopetalous flowers." Op. cit., 
xxxvii, 1903, pp. 365-84, 443-79.— Ab.: Bot. Centralbl., Cassel, 
xciii, 1903, p. 581. 

Several contributions have also been made to the American 
Botanist. At the conclusion of his papers on the coloration of 
flowers he found that for the satisfactory continuation of the 
work an intimate knowledge of the wild bees (there are about 
2,000 species described in North America) of southern Maine 
was required. This group of insects had received very little 
attention in North America, and except for the bumblebees was 
practically unknown in New England. The procuring of the 
widely scattered literature, the collection and preparation of the 
specimens, their critical examination and comparison with typical 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 137 

material, the determination of the synonomy, and the descrip- 
tion of the new forms has required a great amount of time and 
labor. The results of these studies are appearing in a series 
of papers contributed to the three principal entomological 
journals. Psyche, Entomological News and the Canadian Ento- 
mologist. 

"Four Species of Halictus," Canadian Entomologist, Feb., 

1905. 

"The Nomadine and Epeoline Bees of Southern Maine," 
Psyche, April, 1905. 

"Some Maine Species of Halictus," Can. Ent., Aug., 1905. 
"Notes on the Bees of Southern Maine: Anthophoridae, 
Halictoididae, Macropidae and Panurgidae," Psyche, Oct., 1906. 
"The Megachiledae of Southern Maine," Psyche, Feb., 1907. 
"The Bumblebees of Southern Maine," Ent. News, May, 1907. 
"The Sphecodidae of Southern Maine," Psyche, Nov., 1907. 
"The Colletidae of Southern Maine," Can. Ent., Nov., 1907. 
He has just completed "The Halictidae of Southern Maine"; 
two other papers on the Prosopidae and the Andredidae will 
complete the series. He is also joint author of a bibliography of 
the "Andredidae of North America," which will appear later. 

He is a member of two entomological societies, but as a rule he 
has not cared to avail himself of opportunities for membership in 
scientific societies. 

Some years ago he outlined a series of articles on the history 
of American Science, only one of which he has had time to 
complete. This was published in the New England Magazine 
for August, 1904, and was entitled "The Beginnings of Ameri- 
can Science." As the result of correspondence with a Boston 
publisher, he has in preparation a popular work on the mutual 
relations of insects and flowers. In 1899 he received the degree 
of A.M. from Amherst College. 

On October 24 1899, he married Lottie Evangeline Magune 
of Waldoboro, Me. They have one child, Harvey Bulfinch, born 
June 9, 1903. 



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CHARLES W. LOOMIS. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. I 39 



REV. CHARLES W. LOOMIS, 

Ashby, Mass. 

Charles W. Loomis was born in Charlestown, Ohio, Novem- 
ber 26, 1853. He was fitted for college in Oberlin, Ohio, and 
was graduated from Amherst in 1882. From 1882 to 1885 he 
was teacher of Latin in Cheltenham Academy, Ogontz, Pa. In 

1884 he taught Latin in the Amherst Summer School, and in 

1885 at Chautauqua. He studied theology in Yale Divinity 
School (1885-1888), received the degree of B.D., and entered 
the ministry in 1888. His first pastorate was at Eagle River, 
Wis., among the lumbermen of the North. For four years he 
was pastor at Stillman Valley, 111. The church grew, a new 
edifice was erected, and an anti-saloon league for the county was 
organized. After two pastorates in Massachusetts and New 
Hampshire, and a brief interim in business, he became pastor of 
the Congregational Church in Ashby. He is prominent in town 
affairs, having served as auditor ; and he has the unusual dis- 
tinction of belonging to the Chemical Engine Company. 

On September 8, 1891, he married Julia M. Colt of Winsted, 
Conn. Their children are : Frederic Colt, born June 3, 1892 ; 
George Colt, born December 6, 1894; Frank W., born October 
5, 1896, died June 27, 1903 ; and Charles W., Jr., born January 
24, 1901. 



140 



CLASS OF 1882. 






EDWARD HOMER MARTIN. 



AMHERST (OU.ECK. 



141 



E. H. MARTIN, M.D., 



Middlebury, Vt. 

Edward Homer Martin was born in Foo Chow, China, Feb- 
ruary 9, 1861. He was fitted for college in Montpelier, Vt., 
and was graduated from Amherst College in 1882. From 1882 
to 1884 ne studied medicine in the University of Vermont, 
receiving the degree of M.D. in 1884. He practiced for a time 
in Salisbury, and later moved to Middlebury, where he now 
resides. For a number of years he was pension examiner, and 
he is consulting surgeon to Mary Fletcher Hospital in Burling- 
ton. He has been trustee of the village for five years and a 
member of the school committee for ten years. 

On October 12, 1882, he married Ida M. Hinkley of Georgia, 
Vt. They have five children: Edward Homer, Jr. (The Class 
Boy), born August 7, 1883; Carl, born August 13, 1884; 
Harold, born January 10, 1887 ; Mabel, born September 16. 
1888; and Marjorie, born May 12, 1891. 




THE CLASS BOY. 



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CLASS OF l882. 






Strauss photo. 



CHARLES SMITH MILLS. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. I 43 



REV. CHARLES S. MILLS, D.D., 

5139 Westminster Place, 
St. Louis, Mo. 

Charles Smith Mills was born in Brockton, Mass., Janu- 
ary 17. 1861. He was fitted for college in the Roxbury Latin 
School and in Phillips Academy, Andover. He received the 
degree of B.A. from Amherst in 1882. He studied theology in 
the Hartford Theological Seminary (1882-4), and in Andover 
Theological Seminary (1884-5), receiving the degree of B.D. 
In 1901 he received the degree D.D. from Oberlin, and in 1907 
the same from Amherst. His pastorates have been : Congrega- 
tional Church, Springfield, Vt. (1885-8) ; First Congregational 
Church, North Brookfield, Mass. (1888-91) ; Pilgrim Congrega- 
tional Church, Cleveland (1891-1905) ; Pilgrim Congregational 
Church, St. Louis, since 1905. 

Dr. Mills has published a number of articles in magazines, 
together with sermons, addresses, and memorials, — perhaps the 
most important being "The Fundamental Principles of the Insti- 
tutional Church," Homiletic Rcviezv, 1897; "Memorial to Rev. 
John Henry Barrows," Oberlin Review, 1902 ; "The Theology 
of a Successful Evangelism," August, 1905. 

He was president of the Congregational Association of Ohio, 
and of the Ohio Home Missionary Society, 1897-8; director 
(1893-1904), president (1897-8), and vice president Alumni 
Association, Phillips Andover Academy (1902-3); vice presi- 
dent New England Society of Cleveland (1903-5) ; trustee 
Oberlin College since 1896 ; Congregational City Missionary 
Society, Cleveland (1892-1905) ; School of Art, Cleveland 
(1904-5); Drury College since 1905; Iberia Academy, since 
1905 ; director Congregational City Missionary Society, St. 
Louis, since 1905 ; secretary Brookfield Service Association 
(1886-8), president since 1891, designing and publishing Sunday 
evening responsive services, reaching a circulation of nearly a 
million copies ; corporate member Amer. Board Commissioners for 
Foreign Missions since 1897; chairman Committee of Reorgani- 
zation of Congregational Home Missionary Society, 1905 ; presi- 
dent Congregational Home Missionary Society, 1906; director 
Hartford Theological Seminary ; Children's Home Society of 
Missouri ; St. Louis School of Philanthropy : St. Louis Anti- 
Tuberculosis Society ; Chicago Theological Seminary. He is 
a member of Glen Echo Country, Chi Alpha, Town and Gown, 
and Congregational Clubs. 

He married, June 17, 1885, Alice Morris of Hartford, Conn. 
Their children are: Margaret Morris, born March 22, 1886; 
Charles Morris, born May 2. 1892. 

Dr. Mills was prominent in many branches of athletics and 
was a member of Alpha Delta Phi. 



144 



CLASS OF l882. 





V 



FRANK LEWIS NASON. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 145 

FRANK L. NASON, M.A., 
West Haven, Conn. 

Frank Lewis Nason, the son of Lewis Clarke and Maria 
Stickles, was born in New London, Conn., December 5, 1856. 
He was fitted for college in Middlebury, Vt, and was graduated 
from Amherst in 1882. After a term in the Yale Divinity 
School he was instructor in mathematics in the Rensselaer 
Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N. Y. (1882-8) ; and from 1886 to 
1888 instructor of geology in the Troy Female Seminary. He 
received the degree M.A. from Amherst in 1885. He was 
assistant state geologist, New Jersey (1888-90) ; Missouri 
(1890-2). Since 1892 he has been mining engineer and con- 
sulting engineer for a large number of enterprises, among them 
being the Ringwood Company, Ringwood, N. J. ; Basic Iron 
Ore Company, Oxford, N. J. His work has taken him into 
nearly every State in the Union, to Newfoundland, the Mari- 
time Provinces, British Columbia, Mexico, Central America, and 
South America. He is the author of "Iron Ores in Missouri," 
"Mineral Localities of New York State," and is a contributor to 
the American Journal of Science, American Geologist and Min- 
ing and Engineering Journal. He has proved the white lime- 
stones of northern New York to be post archaean, and that sup- 
posed gneisses were eruptive granites. He was the first to dis- 
cover Geflecter Gabbro rocks (scapolite diorite) in the United 
States. Mr. Nason is the author of three novels of Western 
life:— "To the End of the Trail." "The Blue Goose," "The 
Vision of Elijah Berl." 

Mr. Nason is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America, 
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of 
Science, member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, 
member of the New Jersey Microscopical Society. 

He married Thalia Abigail Painter of West Haven, July 26, 

1885. Mrs. Nason died in November, 1906. There are two 

sons : Stanley Lamberton, born July 29, 1887 ; Alexis, born 

July 12, 1894. 

Mr. Nason was a member of Delta Upsilon. 
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146 



CLASS OF l882. 





CHARLES EDWARD OSGOOD NICHOLS. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 147 



REV. C. E. O. NICHOLS, 

Amherst, Mass. 

Charles Edward Osgood Nichols was born June n, 1859, 
in South Hampton, N. H. He was fitted for college in the 
Haverhill (Mass.) High School, and was graduated from 
Amherst in 1882. During 1882-3 he was a tutor in New 
Orleans, and during the next two years he taught Latin in a 
preparatory school. He studied theology in the General Theo- 
logical Seminary (Episcopal), New York (1885-8), and 
received the degree S.T.B. in 1888. From 1888 to 1891 he was 
rector of the Episcopal Church in Salmon Falls, N. H. This 
was followed by rectorates in Brunswick, Me., Cornwall-on-the- 
Delaware, Pa., and Burlington, N. J. Four years ago he 
became master of Worrall Hall Military Academy, Peekskill, 
N. Y. Two years later his father died and he removed to 
Amherst to be near his mother. 

On November 21, 1888, he married Carrie C. Webster of 
Haverhill, Mass. They have two children : George Henry, born 
August 31, 1889; Mary Webster, born November 23, 1890. A 
third child, Gilbert, died in 1905. 

Mr. Nichols was a member of Torch and Crown (later Beta 
Theta Pi). 



148 



CLASS OF l882. 





FRANK CHARLES PARTRIDGE. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 149 

HON. FRANK C. PARTRIDGE, 
Proctor, Vt. 

Frank Charles Partridge was born in East Middlebury, Vt., 
May 7, 1861. He was fitted for college in the Middlebury High 
School, and was graduated with honor from Amherst College 
in 1882. In the fall of 1882 he entered the Columbia College 
Law School, and took the degree of LL.B. there in 1884. 
Immediately after graduating he became assistant manager of 
the Producers Marble Company at Rutland, Vt., and in 1885 
treasurer of the Vermont Marble Company at Proctor, Vt. In 
April, 1889, ne became private secretary to the Secretary of 
War. In May, 1890, he was appointed Solicitor of the Depart- 
ment of State, and served in that position under Secretaries 
Blaine and Foster until February, 1893. He was then appointed 
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Venezuela, 
which office he resigned in May, 1894. In 1896, by appoint- 
ment of Secretary of State Olney, he rewrote the present Con- 
sular Regulations of the United States, under a special 
appropriation of Congress. From 1894 to February, 1897, he 
had an office at Rutland, Vt., for the general practice of law. At 
that time he was offered and expected to accept a position as one 
of the Assistant Secretaries of State but was taken sick and 
sent into exile in the Adirondacks, where he remained five 
months and for the rest of the year undertook very little work. 
In the fall of 1897, desiring a mild climate, he accepted an 
appointment as Consul General at Tangier, Morocco, and 
remained there until July, 1898. During the Spanish war he 
was thus one of the nearest American consular officials in the 
vicinity of Spain, a position of great responsibility. Returning 
home in August, 1898, he was elected in September of that 
year to the Vermont State Senate for the biennial term of 1898- 
1900. Since 1899 ne nas resided continuously at Proctor and 
devoted himself to the business of the Vermont Marble Com- 
pany and its kindred interests. He is now the vice president 
and general counsel of the Vermont Marble Company, and 
counsel for the Clarendon and Pittsford Railroad Company and 
the Proctor Trust Company. 

By the treaties of 1903 between Great Britain and 
Venezuela and between the Netherlands and Venezuela 
it was provided that President Roosevelt should select the 
Umpire of the British-Venezuelan Claims Commission and the 
Netherlands- Venezuelan Claims Commission, both to sit in the 
city of Caracas, Venezuela. He offered both appointments to 
Mr. Partridge and he accepted the same, but was finally unable 
to serve by reason of business duties at home. 

On May 7, 1907, he married Sarah L. Sanborn. 

Mr. Partridge was a member of Delta Upsilon, class monitor, 
and president of the class. 



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CLASS OF l882. 





JOSEPH H. PERRY. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 151 



JOSEPH H. PERRY, 



276 Highland Street, 
Worcester, Mass. 

Joseph H. Perry was born in Dudley, Mass., March 23, 1858. 
He was fitted for college partly in the Worcester High School 
and partly under a private tutor. He received from Amherst 
College in 1882 the degree B.A. He was teacher of geology and 
chemistry in the Worcester High School 1882- 1892, and has 
been teacher of geology and chemistry in the English High 
School, Worcester, from 1892 to the present time. He was 
assistant geologist of the United States Geological Survey under 
Prof. B. K. Emerson, 1888-1902. Field work during this time 
covered a large part of central Massachusetts, the crystalline 
rocks west of the Carboniferous in Rhode Island, and small 
areas in northern Connecticut and southern New Hampshire. 
His publications are : — 

"Note on Coal Plant found at the Graphite deposit in Mica 
schist, at Worcester, Mass." American Journal of Science, III, 
Vol. xxix, pp. 157-158. 1885. 

This was the first fossil ever found at this locality ; and it 
serves as the starting point in fixing the geologic age of the 
rocks of central Massachusetts. 

"The Physical Geography of Worcester, Massachusetts," 8 
plates; pp. 40. Published by Worcester Natural History 
Society, 1898. 

"Physical Geography in the High School." Journal of 
School Geography. Vol. Ill, pp. 130-138, 1899. 

"Notes on the Geology of Mount Kearsarge, New Hamp- 
shire." Journal of Geology. Vol. XI, pp. 403-412, 1903. 

"The Geology of Worcester, Massachusetts." By Joseph H. 
Perry and Benjamin K. Emerson. 2 maps, 40 plates, pp. 166. 
Published by Worcester Natural History Society, 1903. 

"Geology of Monadnock Mountain, New Hampshire." Jour- 
nal of Geology, Vol. XII, pp. 1-14, 1904. 

"Monadnock Mountain." Popular paper read before Worces- 
ter Natural History Society and published in Worcester Tele- 
gram, July 29, 1907. 

"The Green Schists and Associated Granites and Porphyries 
of Rhode Island." By Benjamin K. Emerson and Joseph H. 
Perry. Bulletin No. 311, U. S. Geological Survey, 1 map, 1 
plate, 74 pages. 

He has also found time to serve as an expert on numerous 
law cases ; the last but one, which he finished last August, fur- 
nished him material for original research during a considerable 
part of two years. These results will be published in due time. 

He married Maria Phillips of Worcester, April 27, 1886. 
Their children are: Joseph H., Jr., born October 17, 1890; 
Lydia P., born September 22, 1894. 

Mr. Perry was a member of Alpha Delta Phi. 



i5 2 



CLASS OF l882. 





FLETCHER D. PROCTOR. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 153 

HON. FLETCHER D. PROCTOR, 

Proctor, Vt. 

Fletcher D. Proctor was born at Cavendish, Vt., November 
7, i860; was educated at Middlebury High School, and entered 
Amherst in the Class of '82. Through ill health he had to 
abandon his college course in his junior year. In 1891 he 
received the degree of B.A. (pro honore). On leaving college 
he entered the Vermont Marble Company, becoming president 
and manager in 1889. The company now employs three thou- 
sand men in its works in Vermont alone, and its production of 
marble far exceeds that of any other similar concern in the 
world. His home has always been in the village of Proctor, 
formerly a part of Rutland. He has been a member of the 
school committee since 1883, selectman 1884-5 an d 1887-90, and 
has been road commissioner for ten years. He is also president 
of the Proctor Trust Company and of the Clarendon and Pitts- 
ford Railway Company, which connects the quarries. He was 
for four years a member of the Vermont National Guard, attain- 
ing the rank of first lieutenant. In 1886 he was secretary of 
civil and military affairs to the Governor of Vermont. In 1890 
he became a member of the legislature, receiving every vote cast, 
and was on the committee on ways and means and was chair- 
man of the general committee. In 1892 he was a member of 
the senate and served on the committee on finance, and was 
chairman of the general committee. In 1900 he was again 
chosen as representative to the legislature and again received 
every vote cast, and he was elected speaker of the house. In 
1902 he was a candidate for the nomination of Governor but 
withdrew after the second ballot! In 1904 he was again sent to 
the legislature, serving on the committee of ways and means, 
standing committee on rules, and joint committee on health. In 
November, 1906, he was elected Governor of Vermont. 

He married Minnie E. Robinson of Westford, Vt., May 26, 
1886. They have three children : Emily, born May 24, 1887, 
Mortimer Robinson, born May 30, 1889, and Minnie, born 
January 18, 1895. 

Governor Proctor was a member of Delta Upsilon. 



154 



CLASS OF l882. 




GEORGE WALDO REED. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 155 

REV. GEORGE W. REED, 
Fort Yates, N. Dak. 

George Waldo Reed was born in Hartford, Conn., April 17. 
1855. He had been in business for five years before entering col- 
lege, and was consequently older than most of his classmates. 
He was prepared for college in the Springfield Collegiate Insti- 
tute, and was graduated from Amherst in 1882. He studied 
theology in the Hartford Theological Seminary (1884-7) ! an d 
for twenty years has been missionary to the Indians living on 
the Standing Rock Reservation. He has probably traveled more 
miles in a wagon than any other man in the class, as his parish 
for years was sixty-five miles wide and one hundred miles long, 
and is not much smaller now. On December 10, 1889, he 
organized the Standing Rock Church with twelve members. 
From this church two others have been organized, with a total 
membership of five hundred. For six church buildings he has 
drawn the plans, estimated the cost in detail, selected the lum- 
ber, carted it many miles overland, worked with the builders, 
and built the churches within the appropriation. He has seen 
the red man become brown, casting off paint and feathers and 
becoming tanned in following the plow and in tending cattle and 
crops. He went sixty-five miles to have the accompanying 
photograph taken. 

On October 3, 1882, he married Charlotte M. Burt of Spring- 
field, Mass. Their children are as follows : Waldo Burt, born 
June 27, 1888; Charlotte Thompson, born March 30, 1890, died 
Tanuary 29, 1892 ; Harold Edward, born May 14, 1892, died 
Tanuary 10, 1896; Raymond Vincent, born November 14, 1897. 
He hopes that his boys will go to Amherst. 

Mr. Reed was a member of Torch and Crown (later Beta 
Theta Pi). 



i56 



CLASS OF 1882. 






FREDERICK BRA WARD RICHARDSON. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 157 



F. B. RICHARDSON, M.A., 

The Richardson School, 

87 Centre Street, 

New Rochelle, N. Y. 

Frederick Brainard Richardson was born in 1859 in Doug- 
las, Mass. He was fitted for college in Kimball Union Academy, 
Meriden, N. H., and was graduated from Amherst in 1882. In 
1882-3 he was instructor in mathematics and natural sciences 
in Kimball Union Academy ; and in 1883-4 instructor in the 
high school, Wakefield, Mass. In 1885 he received from 
Amherst College the degree of M.A. From 1885 to 1897 he was 
teacher of Latin and English in Cutler's School, New York 
City; and since 1897 he has been in New Rochelle, head of a 
well-established school of from seventy to ninety boys and 
girls, mostly day pupils. He has published "Notes on English 
History," and a "Beginner's Latin Book." In 1891 he was a 
member of the village committee of Mount Vernon, N. Y. 

On April 9, 1887, he married Martha J. Hubbard of Adrian. 
Mich. They have one child, Marguerite, born January 8, it 
(Mount Holyoke College 191 1). 



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CLASS OF I 





ALFRED GROSVENOR ROLFE. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 159 



ALFRED G. ROLFE, 

The Hill School, 
Pottstown, Pa. 

Alfred Grosvenor Rolfe was born in Dorchester, Mass., 
August 4, i860. He was fitted for college at the Ayer High 
School and the Chauncey Hall School, Boston. He was gradu- 
ated with honor from Amherst in 1882. He taught Greek in 
Black Hall School, Lyme, Conn. (1882-4) ; in Gushing Academy, 
Ashburnham, Mass. (1884-5) ; in Williston Seminary, East- 
hampton, Mass. (1885-6) ; in Greylock Institute, Williamstown, 
Mass. (1886-9). In 1889-90 he traveled and studied in Ger- 
many, Italy, and Greece. Since 1890 he has been teacher of 
Greek and one of the leading masters of the Hill School, Potts- 
town, Pa. In 1885 he received from Amherst College the 
degree M.A. 

Mr. Rolfe is unmarried. 

Mr. Rolfe was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, class 
monitor, and prize winner. 



i6o 



CLASS OF l882. 



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FREDERICK THOMAS ROUSE. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. l6l 



REV. F. T. ROUSE, 

510 North Twenty-first Street, 
Omaha, Neb. 

Frederick Thomas Rouse was born in Jamestown, N. Y., 
June 26, 1859. He was fitted for college in Williston Seminary, 
and was graduated from Amherst in 1882. He studied theology 
in the Hartford Theological Seminary and in Yale Divinity 
School. Leaving his studies, he spent a year among the Hawaiian 
Islands, where he succeeded his father as preacher in the Ameri- 
can Church at Makawaw, on the island of Maui ; and then 
returned to this country, and while completing his theological 
course preached two summers in Maine, one at Sanford, the 
other at South Freeport. He was ordained in 1887, and became 
pastor of the Pilgrim Congregational Church, West Superior, 
Wis. He organized the church and served it for five years. 
In 1893 he was installed pastor of the Congregational Church 
in Plantsville, Conn., and remained there six years. In 1899 he 
was called to Appleton, Wis., and remained there eight years. 
During this pastorate five hundred and fifty members were 
added to the church ; and it is now the largest of the denomina- 
tion in the state. He has recently (September, 1907) removed 
to Omaha, Neb., and become pastor of the First Congregational 
Church. 

On September 26, 1888, he married Constance E. Waite of. 
South Freeport, Me. They have three children : Hallock, born 
November 8, 1891 ; Winifred, born October 11, 1895; Mary 
Waite, born November 8, 1896. 



162 



CLASS OF l882. 





WATSON LEWIS SAVAGE. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 1 63 

DR. WATSON L. SAVAGE, M.A., 

308 West Fifty-ninth Street, 
New York, N. Y. 

Watson Lewis Savage was born November 26, 1859, in 
Cromwell, Conn. He was fitted for college at Middletown. 
Conn., and under a tutor ; and was graduated from Amherst 
in 1882. He was instructor in Shattuck School, Faribault, 
Minn. (1882-3). He studied medicine in Long Island College 
Hospital (1883-5), receiving the degree M.D. In the same 
year he received from Amherst the degree M.A. He served 
in St. Peter's Hospital (1885-6) ; and in 1886-7 was engaged 
in private practice. From 1887 to 1890 he was medical director 
of Berkeley School and Association, New York. For six years 
(1897-1903) he served Columbia University, planning, organiz- 
ing and directing its new gymnasium. He is now president and 
manager of the Dr. Savage Physical Development Institute 
(Limited) ; and president and consulting physician of The New 
York Normal School of Physical Education. His specialty is 
kinesepathy or kinesiology. He prescribes corrective exercises, 
and lectures on physiology of exercise, physical diagnosis, gym- 
nasium administration, anthropometry and athletics. He is a 
member of the British Medical Society, member of the New 
York County Medical Society, member of the American Acad- 
emy of Medicine, president of the Society of College Gymnasium 
Directors (1903) professor in the New York School of 
Advanced Therapeutics, and president of the American Physical 
Education Association (1901-3). 

On October 26, 1887, he married Ella Whiting of Brooklyn, 
N. Y. Their children are: Helen, born February 1, 1890, died 
August 18, 1890; Dorothy Davis, born August 9, 1891 ; John 
Whiting, born February 14, 1893; Richard Billings, born Janu- 
ary 12, 1894; Watson Lewis, Jr., born February 6, 1898; Kirk- 
wood Hallock, born May 22, 1903. 

Dr. Savage was a member of Torch and Crown (later Beta 
Theta Pi), and was the class and college leader in athletics. 



164 



CLASS OF l882. 





ROLAND COTTON SMITH. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 1 65 



REV. ROLAND COTTON SMITH, D.D., 

Rector, St. John's Church, 
Washington, D. C. 

Roland Cotton Smith was born March 24, i860; was fitted 
for college in New York City and was graduated from Amherst 
College in 1882. Mr. Smith was a member of Psi Upsilon 
and was prominent in athletics. He has the honor of having 
introduced the game of lawn tennis into Amherst College dur- 
ing the spring of 1880. He studied theology in the Episcopal 
Theological Seminary, Cambridge, Mass., from 1882 to 1885, 
receiving the degree B.D. He was rector of St. Peter's, Bev- 
erly, Mass., from 1885 to 1889; assistant minister in Trinity 
Church, Boston (under Rev. Phillips Brooks), from 1889 to 
1892 ; rector of St. John's Church, Northampton, Mass., from 
1892 to 1903 ; and since 1903 rector of St. John's Church, 
Washington, D. C. 

On October 13, 1886, he married Margaret Sigourney Otis 
of Boston. Their children are: John Cotton, born July 16, 1887; 
William Otis, born December 9, 1888 : Margaret Sigourney, 
born May 16, 1902. He received the degree D.D. from Amherst 
College in 1905. 



i66 



CLASS OF l882. 





WILLIAM DAY SMITH. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 1 67 



W. D. SMITH, M.A., 

Bon Air School, 
Bon Air, Va. 

William Day Smith was born in Pomfret, Conn.; was fitted 
for college in the Amherst High School, and was graduated 
from Amherst in 1882. He taught in a private school in Dover, 
Del. (1882-3); in Charleston (1883-4); in the public schools 
of Port Jervis, N. Y. (1884-8) ; and as principal of the schools 
of Warwick, N. Y. (1888-93). He removed to the vicinity of 
Richmond, Va., in 1893, where he is now located as head of a 
flourishing private academy. 

On August 29, 1888, he married Eunice King Hazen of Rich- 
mond, Va. Their children are : Elizabeth Moulton, born June 
10, 1889; Philip King, born November 3, 1892; Dorothy 
Eunice, born September 9, 1895 ; Emily Hazen, born June 30, 
1900. 

Mr. Smith has received the degree M.A. from Amherst 
College. 



i68 



CLASS OF l882. 





ARTHUR WILLIS STANFORD. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. I 69 

PROF. A. W. STANFORD, M.A., 

59 Nakayamate dori, 6 Chome, 
Kobe, Japan. 

Arthur Willis Stanford was born January 10, 1857, in 
Lowell, Mass. ; was fitted for college in the Lowell High School, 
and was graduated from Amherst in 1882. He studied theology 
in Yale Divinity School (1882-4), received the degree B.D., and 
entered the ministry September 15, 1886. During the summer 
of 1883 he preached in Iroquois, S. D. ; and in the summer of 
1884 in Sharon, Wis. During the summer of 1886 he received 
appointment as missionary of the American Board to Japan ; 
and on October 19, 1886, sailed from San Francisco. During 
the next nine years he was professor in the theological depart- 
ment of the Doshisha (founded by Dr. Nesima in 1875). He 
returned in 1895 on a furlough, traveling via Suez. He spent 
six months in study in Berlin. In 1897 he returned to Japan, 
teaching in Kobe until he was obliged (1903) to return to this 
country on account of poor health. Travel in Europe, an excur- 
sion to Japan, rest, and study have restored Mr. Stanford's 
health, and he is now back in Kobe at work again. His special 
work will be among the great numbers of students and other 
young men in commercial and mercantile pursuits. The out- 
look is encouraging and the opportunity great. Mr. Stanford 
has published: ''Introduction to the Psalms," 1891 ; a translation 
into Japanese of Dana's "Creation" ; also, in 1898, "Register of 
Descendants of Abner Stanford, the Revolutionary Soldier"; 
and in 1906, "Stanford Genealogy, comprising the Descendants 
of Abner Stanford, the Revolutionary Soldier." 

On September 1, 1886, he married Jennie H. Pearson of 
Lowell, Mass., a teacher in Abbott Female Academy, Andover, 
Mass. Mrs. Stanford has led the active life of a missionary, 
teaching in the Doshisha Girls' School and elsewhere, serving as 
principal of the Kobe College for Girls, superintendent of the 
Walker Missionary Home in Auburndale, Mass., and at present 
instructor in the Bible Woman's School of Kobe. 



170 



CLASS OF 1882. 





WILLIAM FOSTER STEARNS. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. I 7 I 



REV. WILLIAM F. STEARNS, M.A., 
Norfolk, Conn. 

William Foster Stearns was born in 1859 in Boston, Mass. ; 
was fitted for college in the Roxbnry Latin School and Hopkin- 
son's School, Boston ; and was graduated from Amherst Col- 
lege in 1882. He received the degree M.A. from Amherst in 
1885. He studied theology in the Hartford Theological Semi- 
nary (1882-6), entering the ministry in 1889. From 1886 to 
1889 he traveled widely in Europe, and was a student in Free 
Church College and Edinburgh University Established College. 
He investigated all forms of philanthropic, charitable, and relig- 
ious work among the lower classes in East End, London. From 
1889 to 1892 he was minister of the Congregational Church of 
Hartford, Vt. In 1892-3 he was a graduate student at the 
Andover Theological Seminary. From 1893 to 1895 he was 
minister of the Union Congregational Church, Marlboro, Mass. ; 
and in the following year resided in Andover. From 1897 he 
has been minister of the Church of Christ (Congregational) in 
Norfolk, Conn. 

On May 19, 1886, he married Fanny Stearns Clark of Amherst, 
daughter of the late president of the State Agricultural College. 
Their children are : Douglas Clark, born March 23, 1893 ; Wil- 
liam Foster, Jr., born July 18, 1900. 

Mr. Stearns was a member of Chi Psi. 



172 



CLASS OF l882. 






EUGENE WARREN STODDARD. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. I 73 



E. W. STODDARD, 

Martinez, Cal. 

Eugene Warren Stoddard was born September 18, i860, in 
Mil ford, Mass. He was fitted for college in his native town, 
and was graduated from Amherst in 1882. He studied theology 
in Andover Theological Seminary (1883-6), and was pastor of the 
Congregational Church in Haverhill, N. H. (1886-91). From 
1 89 1 to 1903 he was pastor of the Congregational Church of 
Martinez, Cal. In this latter year he resigned and accepted the 
principalship of the Alhambra Union High School, which posi- 
tion he still holds. His home is in Berkeley. 

On September 15, 1886, he married Lillie A. Mitchell of West- 
borough, Mass. They have two children : Walter Eugene, born 
July 11, 1887; and Ethel Morrison, born August 20, 1888 (both 
in University of California, Class of 1910). 

Mr. Stoddard was a member of Delta Upsilon. 



174 



CLASS OF l882. 









LUCIUS HARRISON THAYER. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. J 75 



REV. L. H. THAYER, 

Portsmouth, N. H. 

Lucius Harrison Thayer was born in Westfield, Mass., 
November 28, 1857. He was prepared for college at the West- 
field High School. He was supercargo on the ship Lucy S. 
Wills (1876-78). He was graduated from Amherst in 1882. 
In 1882-84 he was in the machinery business, in Providence, 
R. I.; in 1884 at home in Westfield. He studied theology in 
Yale Divinity School (1885-90), receiving the degree of B.D. 
in the Class of 1888, and continuing in the University as Dwight 
Fellow, an appointment awarded at graduation. After some 
months of travel in Europe Mr. Thayer was ordained and 
installed, January 28, 1891, pastor of the North Congregational 
Church, Portsmouth, N. H., and in this office he still serves. 

On June. 29, 1892, he was married to Helen Chadwick Rand 
(Smith '84) of Westfield, one of the founders of the College 
Settlement in New York City, and since marriage sometime 
trustee of Smith College and president of the College Settle- 
ments Association. They have three children: Dorothy Gold- 
thwait, born August 28, 1893 ; Lucius Ellsworth, born June 19, 
1896; and Sherman Rand, born September 28, 1904. 
Mr. Thayer was a member of Psi Upsilon. 



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CLASS OF l882. 




WILLIAM HAVEN THOMPSON. 



AM HERST COLLEGE. 177 



WILLIAM H. THOMPSON, 

Atkinson Academy, 
Atkinson, N. H. 

William Haven Thompson was born in Sudbury, Mass., 
August 9, 1859. He was fitted for college in South Framing- 
ham, Mass., and was graduated from Amherst College in 1882. 
After two years of teaching in New England Schools, he went 
to Newton, N. C, where for ten years he was professor of Latin 
and English in Catawba College. In 1895 he accepted the prin- 
cipalship of the Anne Arundel Academy, near Annapolis, in 
Maryland. After a service of six years he returned to New 
England. In the following year he was principal of Hartland 
Academy, Hartland, Me. ; and for the next two years and a 
half was head of the Scarboro High School. In November, 1905, 
he became manager and proprietor of the Worcester Teachers' 
Agency, Worcester, Mass. ; and in the fall of 1907 he became 
principal of Atkinson Academy, Atkinson, N. H. 

On May 18, 1892, he married Eunice Clapp, daughter of 
the president of Catawba College. They have five children: 
William Haven, Jr., born April 24, 1893 ; Charles Crawford, 
born September 23, 1894; Ruth Frances, born September 21, 
1896; Dorothy Lewis, born January 10, 1899; and Marjorie 
Emma, born June 28, 1901. 

Mr. Thompson was a member of Torch and Crown (later 
Beta Theta Pi). 



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CLASS OF l882. 





HERBERT AMES TUCKER. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. I 79 



H. A. TUCKER, 

Tucker, Hayes & Co., 

8 Congress Street, 

Boston, Mass. 

Herbert Ames Tucker was horn January i, 1862, in Dor- 
chester, Mass. He was fitted for college in the Dorchester High 
School, and was graduated from Amherst College in 1882, the 
youngest man in the class. After graduation he returned to 
Boston, where he built up a large banking and brokerage busi- 
ness. For several years he was employed by the Eastern Bank- 
ing Company. From September, 1890, to July 1, 1906, he was 
junior member of the firm of Emery & Tucker, bankers and 
brokers, 28 State Street. On July r, 1906, he became senior 
member of the firm of Tucker, Hayes & Co., bankers and 
brokers. 

On November 18, 1905, he married Mary Hamilton Chase. 

Mr. Tucker was a member of Psi Upsilon, and prominent in 
athletics. 



iSo 



CLASS OF l882. 






WALTER SHEPARD UFFORD. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 



WALTER S. UFFORD, Ph.D., 

38 Beaumont Street, 
Dorchester, Mass. 

Walter Shepard Ufford was born February 26, 1859, in 
Cambridge, Mass. He was fitted for college in the Dorchester 
High School, and was graduated from Amherst in 1882. He 
received from Amherst in 1885 the degree M.A. ; and from 
Columbia in 1897 the degree Ph.D. He taught mathematics and 
military drill in Cheltenham Academy, 1882-6; and was a 
student in Yale Divinity School (1886-7). ^ n 1888-9 ne was 
acting principal of Cheltenham Academy. He was graduated 
from Andover Theological Seminary in 1890, and was a post- 
graduate student in the following year. From 1891 to 1894 he 
was pastor of Trinity Congregational Church, Tremont, N. Y. 
He was sometime resident in Toynbee Hall, London, and in the 
University Settlement, New York City. He was Fellow in 
Sociology in Columbia University (1896), receiving the degree 
Ph.D. the following year. He was manager of the press bureau 
of the Citizen's Union in the first Seth Low campaign (1897) ; 
and was secretary of the Citizen's Committee of One Hundred 
for the 25th National Conference of Charities and Corrections 
in New York (1898). He was special agent of the New York 
State Charities Aid Association for the abolition of the contract 
system for the care of the poor in Montgomery County; and 
superintendent of inspection for the New York State Board of 
Charities (1899-1902). From 1902 to 1907 he was general sec- 
retary of the Baltimore Association for the Improvement of the 
Condition of the Poor and Charity Organization Society, known 
as The Federated Charities of Baltimore. By reason of ill 
health he resigned in the spring of 1907. He is author of a mono- 
graph entitled "Fresh Air Charity in the United States," pub- 
lished in 1897 ; contributor of articles to the Charities Review, 
Charities, The Quarterly Record and annual reports published 
by the New York State Board of Charities (1899-1902) ; and 
editor of the Charities Record, Baltimore (1902-7). 

Dr. Ufford is unmarried. 

Dr. Ufford was a member of Psi Upsilon, "gym" captain, and 
a leader in the class. 



CLASS OF l882. 




GEORGE HAMLIN WASHBURN. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. I 83 



GEORGE H. WASHBURN, M.D., 

377 Marlborough Street, 
Boston, Mass. 

George Hamlin Washburn, the son of Rev. George Wash- 
burn (Amherst '55), until 1905 president of Robert College, 
Constantinople, was born in Constantinople, May 22, i860. He 
was prepared for college in the preparatory department of Robert 
College, and was graduated from Amherst in 1882. He studied 
medicine in Harvard Medical School, receiving the degree M.D. 
in 1886. During 1885-6 he was interne in the Boston City Hos- 
pital. Since then he has practiced medicine in Boston, his 
specialty being gynecology. During the summer months of the 
past sixteen years he has been in general practice in Manchester- 
by the Sea. He is the author of monographs on medical subjects. 
He is visiting surgeon at St. Elizabeth's Hospital, assisting 
gynecological surgeon at Free Hospital for Women, profes- 
sor of obstetrics in Tufts College Medical School. He is a mem- 
ber of the Massachusetts Medical Society and former censor and 
also president of Gynecological Section, president of the Boston 
Obstetrical Society, etc. He lived in Constantinople most of his 
life until 1877, and has traveled widely. 

He married. Anna M: Hoyt, of Auburn, New York, Septem- 
ber, 1887. Their children are : Anna Loraine, born August 7, 
1888 (now in Smith College) ; George Edward, born February 
27, 1891 ; Arthur Hoyt, born March 18, 1893; Alfred Hamlin, 
born March 14, 1895; Frances, born July 29, 1899; died March 
9, 1900. 

Dr. Washburn was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. 



CLASS OF l882. 





PHILIP MELANCTHON WAITERS. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 



185 



REV. PHILIP M. WATTERS, D.D., 

176 War burton Avenue, 
Yonkers, N. Y. 
Philip Melancthon Watters was born September 3, i860, 
in Brooklyn, N. Y. ; was fitted for college in Trinity School, 
New York City, and was graduated from Amherst College in 
1882. In college Dr. Watters was prominent in gymnastic 
work. He studied theology in Union Theological Seminary, New 
York (1882-5), entering the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church in 1885. He has served in the following charges: Cen- 
tral Valley, N. Y. (1885-7) 5 Warwick, N. Y. (1887-9) ; Dobbs 
Ferry, N. Y. (1889-92); Washington Street Church, Pough- 
keepsie, N. Y. ; Grace Church, New York City; St. James 
Church, Kingston, N. Y. In April, 1905, he was appointed pre- 
siding elder of the New York District, N. Y. Conference, which 
office he still holds. There are seventy churches in the district. 
On September 3, 1885, he married Hyla Ada Stowell of Peru, 
Mass. Their children are : Florence Ada, born August 29, 1888 ; 
Philip Sidney, born February 4, 1890 (Princeton 1910) ; Hyla 
Stowell, born October 13, 1903- 

In 1900 Wesleyan University conferred on him the degree D.D. 



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CLASS OF l882. 





JACOB PAISLEY WHITEHEAD. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 1^7 



REV. J. P. WHITEHEAD, 
Newport, Ky. 

Jacob Paisley Whitehead was born in Woodboro, 111., 
March 30, 1855; was fitted for college in Williston Seminary. 
Easthampton, Mass., and was graduated from Amherst in 1882. 
After graduation he studied law for a short time in Chicago. 
From 1882 to 1887 he taught the Indians in Wealaka, Creek 
Nation, Indian Territory, being principal teacher for two years 
and superintendent for three. He studied theology in Lane 
Theological Seminary, Cincinnati, Ohio (1887-90), received the 
degree B.D., and was ordained May 20, 1890. For the past fif- 
teen years he has been pastor of the First Presbyterian Church 
of Newport, Ky., which office he still holds. He has pub- 
lished occasional sermons and addresses. 

On February 22, 1883, he married Amelia Lucinda Porter, of 
Vandalia, Mo., who died September 23, 1900. There are two 
children: Mary Elizabeth, born July 6, 1884 (University of Cin- 
cinnati 1904) ; and Charles Edson, born November 6, 1886. 

Mr. Whitehead was a member of Torch and Crown (later 
Beta Theta Pi). 



i88 



CLASS OF l882. 





FRED WHITING. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 1 89 

DR. FRED WHITING, M.A., 

19 West Forty-seventh Street, 
New York, N. Y. 

Fred Whiting was born in Brooklyn, February 4, 1861 ; was 
fitted for college in Greenwich Academy, Greenwich, Conn., and 
was graduated from Amherst in 1882. He studied medicine at 
Long Island College Hospital, under the preceptorship of Dr. 
Charles Corey, and was graduated with the degree M.D. in 
June, 1885. He received from Amherst College the degree M.A. 
in the same year. In 1885 he was appointed upon the house staff 
of St. Peter's Hospital; and in 1886 he was appointed house 
surgeon at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary. After two 
years' service he spent two years in Germany, principally at 
Heidelberg and Frankfort-on-the-Main. Upon his return he was 
appointed assistant attending surgeon at the New York Eye and 
Ear Infirmary, and began practice in his specialty in New York 
City. In 1897 he was appointed attending surgeon at the New 
York Eye and Ear Infirmary, and was made professor of otology 
at the New York Polyclinic Medical School. About that time he 
was made attending surgeon to several other hospitals ; and in 
1904 received the professorship of otology in Cornell University 
Medical School. He is a member of local, state and national 
medical associations and of the International Ophthalmo logical 
Society. He has contributed freely to medical literature, his 
"Sarcoma of Iris" and "New Eustachian Electrode" being 
among his minor works ; while his most important production is 
entitled "The Modern Mastoid Operation." He has discovered 
a new operation for the removal of enlarged and obstructing 
bones of the nose, also a new device for the application of 
electricity to the eustachian canal. 

On November 4, 1891, he married Pauline Marion Loder of 
New York. Their children are : Frederick Loder, born Janu- 
ary 12, 1893; Margaret Murray, born June 25, 1896; Elizabeth, 
born March 18, 1906. 

Dr. Whiting was a member of Delta Upsilon, and prominent 
in athletics. 



CLASS OF l882. 






FRED NEWTON WIER. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. l 9 l 



F. N. WIER, ESQ., 

42 Eleventh Street, 
Lowell, Mass. 

Fred Newton Wier was born in Lowell, Mass., July 4, 1861. 
He was fitted for college in the Lowell High School, and was 
graduated from Amherst College in 1882. He assisted his 
father in the hardware business for three years (1882-5), and 
then studied law in the Boston University Law School (1885-7). 
receiving the degree of LL.B. He practiced law in Boston for 
fifteen months; and then opened an office in Lowell early in 
1889. He was a member of the legislature for two years (1891- 
2), serving on important committees. From 1892 to 1901 he 
was district attorney for Middlesex County. Since that date 
he has been engaged in private practice with offices in Boston 
and Lowell. The firm name is Richardson, Trull & Wier; 
Lowell offices at 103 Central Street ; Boston offices, 817 Barris- 
ters Hall, Pemberton Square. 

On December 9, 1896, he married Bertha E. Barker of Lowell, 

Mass. 

Mr. Wier was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. 



192 



CLASS OF 1882. 





JOHN CAMP WILLIAMS. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. I 93 



JOHN C. WILLIAMS, 

Park Row Building, 
New York, N. Y. 

John Camp William s was born in Utica, N. Y., September 
6, 1859. He was fitted for college in Utica Academy, and was 
graduated from Amherst College in 1882. During 1882-3 he 
traveled in Europe and studied in Berlin. For the next six 
years he was superintendent of the brass department of the 
Crane Company, Chicago, 111. In 1891 he became vice presi- 
dent and general manager of the Western Tube Company at 
Kewanee, 111. He developed this concern into a large manufac- 
turing plant of wrought iron and steel pipe and brass, malleable 
and cast iron fittings. In studying the problem of annealing 
malleable iron, he succeeded after much study in solving the 
annealing of cast iron by decrystallization. The universal 
method up to that time had been by decarbonization. This new 
method resulted in large saving commercially, and revolutionized 
this branch of the business. He sold out to the National Tube 
Company in 1900, and to the United States Steel Company in 
1901. His home is now in Morristown, N. J., and he is devoting 
himself to mining interests. In 1906 Charles Scribner's Sons 
published his "Oneida County Printer," with allied history of 
Central New York. He is a member of the University Club, 
Grolier Club, New York Chapter of the Colonial Order, Colonial 
Wars of New Jersey. 

On June 23, 1891, he married Caroline Wheeler of Buffalo, 
N. Y. Their children are : Carolyn Wheeler, born March 29, 
1892; Lois Katherine, born April 10, 1901 ; John Camp, Jr., and 
Abby Dorothy. The latter two died in infancy. 

Mr. Williams was a member of Alpha Delta Phi, and interested 
in out-door athletics. 



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194 



CLASS OF l882. 




JOHN FRANKLIN WING. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. ,Q 5 



JOHN F. WING, Ph.D., 

Commercial Point, 
Dorchester, Mass. 

John Franklin Wing was born August 17, i860, in Dart- 
mouth, Mass. He was prepared for college in New Bedford, 
and was graduated from Amherst College in 1882. In 1882-4 he 
traveled in Europe, studying chemistry in the University of 
Gottingen, where he received the degree Ph.D. He was assist- 
ant in the chemical laboratory of Tufts College for two years, 
and instructor in Harvard University. Since June, 1887, he 
has been chemist, superintendent, and engineer to various Boston 
gas companies. He has his office at the Commercial Point Sta- 
tion and the title of Engineer in Charge of Boston Consolidated 
Gas Company. His home is at 29 Thornley Street, Dorchester, 
Mass. He is author and joint-author of papers on chemical 
subjects published by Deuerlich and in American Journal of 
Arts and Sciences. He is a member of the Deutsche Chemische 
Gesellschaft and the Boylston Chemical Club. 

On January 25, 1893, he married Mary Jane Christian. Their 
children are : Kenneth, born November 24, 1893 ; Hester, born 
December 18, 1894; Franklin, born July 1, 1899. 
Dr. Wing was a member of Chi Phi. 



THE NON-GRADUATES 




JOHN ALBREE, 

31 State Street, 
Boston, Mass. 

John Albree was born in Boston January 30, 1859; gradu- 
ated at the English High School, Boston, receiving a Ben. Frank- 
lin medal ; was fitted in the classics at the Boston Latin School 
and Adams Academy, Quincy. He had to abandon his college 
course in March, 1880, owing to what was later found to have 
been eye strain, a trouble that was not then recognized and cor- 
rected as now. From 1883 to 1885 he was in the shoe machinery 
business in Boston, and from 1886 to 1897 he was in the depart- 
ment of credits and collections of the Boston Merchants Asso- 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 197 

ciation. Since then he has had the management of private trusts 
with an office at 31 State Street, Boston. His home since 1891 
has been at Swampscott, Mass. He is not married. Beyond 
serving on some committees of the town of Swampscott he has 
not been in public life. He has printed three illustrated mono- 
graphs : 

"The Tradition of the old Weaver's Clock" (1903), a study 
of the methods of time-keeping in the colonial period and an 
investigation of the conditions of life these reveal. 

"A Blight on Boston; how shall it be removed?" (1906), 
treating of the damage to the community resulting from keeping 
idle and unproductive a large tract of land in the heart of 
Boston, formerly used as a railroad terminal but abandoned 
since 1899. 

"Charles Brooks and his Work for Normal Schools" (1907), 
relating how Brooks in 1835-8 advocated successfully the estab- 
lishment of normal schools by the State for training teachers 
because "as is the teacher, so is the school." 

Mr. Albree was a member of Chi Psi. 

E. F. CATE, ESQ., 
Wolfeborough, N. H. 

Edward F. Cate was born December 23, 1853, in Wolfe- 
borough, N. H. ; was fitted for college in New Haven, Conn.; 
passed one year at Amherst College, and finished the course at 
Dartmouth College, receiving the degree B.A. in 1882. He 
read law with Wm. C. Fox, Esq., of Wolfeborough, until 
March, 1885. He went to Minneapolis, Minn., and entered the 
office of Fairchild & Roberts, attorneys at law. He was admitted 
to the bar in July, 1885, and practiced in Minneapolis until 1888, 
when he returned to his native town. For the past three years he 
has been a member of the Board of Education. He represented 
his town in the New Hampshire legislature of 1905. From 1900 
to 1904 he was trustee of the town library and also selectman 
of the town. He has traveled widely in Europe, California, and 
the Canadian Northwest. 

Mr. Cate is unmarried. 



I9 8 CLASS OF l882. 




PROF. RICHARD BURTON, 

University of Minnesota, 
Minneapolis, Minn. 

Richard E. Burton, the son of Rev. N. J. and Rachael Chase 
Burton, was born in Hartford, Conn., March 14, 1859. After 
studying in Amherst for a short time he entered Trinity College, 
Hartford, and was graduated from that institution. After sev- 
eral years of resident work he received the degree Ph.D. from 
Johns Hopkins in 1887. After teaching for a year in Johns 
Hopkins, he became managing editor of the Churchman (N. Y.). 
He traveled in Europe in 1889-90, and was literary editor of 
the Hartford Courant (1890-7). He was associate editor of 
Warner's Library of the World's Best Literature (1897-9) > 
professor of English Literature in the University of Minnesota 
(1898-1902) ; editor of the Lothrop Publishing Company (1902- 
1906), resuming in 1906 his position as head of the English 
department in the University of Minnesota. 

He is the author of "Dumb in June" (poems), 1895; 
"Memorial Day" (poem), 1897; "Literary Likings" (essays), 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 199 

1898; "Lyrics of Brotherhood" (poems), 1900; "Life of Whit- 
tier" (in Beacon Biography Series), 1900; "Forces in Fiction," 
1902; "Browning," in the Belles Lettres Series; "Message and 
Melody — A Book of Verse," 1903. He will publish shortly "The 
Modern Novel"; a volume of lyrics containing his latest work, 
"From the Book of Life" ; and a piece of fiction, "Three of a 
Kind." Professor Burton is favorably and widely known as a 
lecturer. 

He is a member of the Boston Authors Club, the New York 
Authors Club, Players, Twentieth Century of Boston, Quad- 
rangle of Chicago, and the University of Minneapolis. 

He married in London, October 7, 1889. 

A. F. CUSHMAN, ESQ., 

79 Wall Street, 
New York, N. Y. 

Avery Fayette Cushman was born in Amherst, August 28, 
i860; was fitted for college in the Amherst High School, 
entered the college with the Class of 1882, remaining one year. 
He later joined the Class of 1883, graduating with it. He studied 
law in Boston University Law School (1883-5), receiving the 
degree of LL.B. Since then he has practiced law in New York, 
until April, 1903, with Goodrich, Deady & Goodrich, and later 
with Stephen P. Cushman, his father. His specialty is admiralty 
law. He resides in Brooklyn. 

On June 14, 1888, he married Mary Adelaide Hedden of East 
Orange, N. J. Their children are: Dorothy, born January 18, 
1890, died January 19, 1890; Caroline, born January 17, 1893. 



CLASS OF l882. 





H. B. CHASE, ESQ., 

Yountville, 
Napa County, Cal. 

Horace Blanchard Chase was born in Chicago, October 18, 
1859; was fitted for college in Lake View (111.) High School; 
and passed four years in Amherst College, pursuing a special 
course. He studied law in the Chicago Law School (1882-5), 
and was admitted to the bar. He was for a time attorney at 
law and civil engineer in Phoenix, Ariz. For about twenty 
years he has lived in Yountville, where he has a large estate, and 
is engaged in raising fruit and making claret and white wines, 
known as Stag's Leap Wines. 

On July 18, 1888, he married Minnie Mizner of California. 

Very little can be learned about Mr. Chase, for he has not 
replied to any letters ; but it is known that in addition to his large 
California interests he holds mining properties in Mexico, and 
occasionally visits Mr. Draper in Cananea. 

In College Mr. Chase was a leader in athletics, and a member 
of Chi Psi. The above is an '82 photograph. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 




HARRISON H. CHILD, 

Westley Farm, 
Medfield, Mass. 

Harrison Hayford Child was born in Worcester, Mass., 
December 30, 1858, and was fitted for college in a private school 
in Marblehead. Mass. He entered Amherst College with the 
Class of '82 but did not complete the course. He was with F. W. 
Bird & Son, paper manufacturers, until 1894, after being in the 
banking business a few years with Loring & Potter. He is 
now a farmer in Medfield. Mass., Westley Farm being a large and 

attractive estate. 

On November 1, 1887, he married Rebecca Hill Bird of East 
Walpole, Mass. In 1804 on account of his wife's health he 
moved to Santa Barbara, Cal. Mrs. Child died in 1899. His 
only son, Harrison Hayford, Jr.. born February 26, 1889, has 
been a student at Milton Academy and enters Harvard this fall. 



CLASS OF l882. 




GEORGE W. CURRIER, 

258 Washington Street, 
Boston, Mass. 

George W. Currier, of Brookline, was born in Lawrence, 
Mass., July 19, 1859. He entered Amherst College with the 
Class of '82, but left during- his junior year and entered the 
Harvard Medical School. After completing a four years' 
course in medicine he practiced his profession in Boston. When 
a young man Mr. Currier was much gifted as an artist and 
musician, and after three years' practice of medicine he 
became a journalist and artist on the newspapers of Boston. He 
is at the present time a designer, and is a well-known water-color 
artist. He is very accomplished as a musician, having written 
the music for an opera, "Valhalla," which was produced in 
Boston in 1897. He has written many other musical com- 
positions. 

Mr. Currier married, in 1883, Addie Lyford of Lowell, Mass., 
a school teacher in that city. They have one son, Earle L., a 
senior in Harvard University. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 



203 




M. H. DAY, 

Consumers Cordage Company, Ltd., 
Montreal, Canada. 

Moses Henry Day was born in Roxbury, Mass.. March 18, 
i860; was fitted for college in the Roxbury Latin School, entered 
Amherst College, and left at the end of his sophomore year. For 
a time he was superintendent of the Sewell & Day Cordage Com- 
pany and controlled valuable patents employed in his business. 
He is now vice president and general manager of the Con- 
sumers Cordage Company, Ltd., of Montreal and Halifax, and 
president of the Colonial Cordage Company, Ltd., of Toronto. 

On September 28, 1882, he married Adeline Louise Stock- 
well of Roxbury. They have three children: Marjorie, born 
December 29, 1886; Henry Stockwell, born November 8, 1889; 
and Chester Sessions, born December 1, 189 1. 



204 



CLASS OF l882. 




E. ALDEN DYER, M.D., 

Whitman, 
Plymouth County, Mass. 

Ebenezer Alden Dyer was born in South Abington, Mass., 
July 17, 1857; was fitted for college in Phillips Academy, 
Andover, Mass., and remained at Amherst for a few terms. 
He studied medicine in Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New 
York City (1879-82), and received the degree M.D. He is a 
member of the Massachusetts Medical Society. With the excep- 
tion of five years, when he was prospecting in North Alaska, 
he has practiced medicine in Whitman. He is a member of the 
Massachusetts Association of Boards of Health, and has rep- 
resented his town in 1906-7 in the Massachusetts General Court, 
serving as chairman of the Committee on Public Charitable Insti- 
tutions. He is chairman of the Republican Town Committee. 

Dr. Dyer is unmarried. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 



205 




GURDON R. FISHER, 

263 Lake Avenue, 
Newton Highlands, Mass. 

Gurdon Russell Fisher was born January 29, 1861, in 
Hartford, Conn.; was fitted for college in Hartford High 
School, and remained in Amherst two years and a half. He then 
took a- special course of two years in architecture in the Massa- 
chusetts Institute of Technology. In 1888 he traveled in Eng- 
land and Scotland. Mr. Fisher is an architect, and his home 
and office address is given above. For several years he has not 
been in robust health, although at our last reunion he appeared 
to have recovered from recent severe illness. 

' On January 31, 1884, he married Ellen Stevens Kendall of 
West Newton, Mass. They have two sons : Russell Warren, 
born December 26. 1885; and Ernest Withington, born May 

20, 1887. 

Mr. Fisher was a member of Delta Upsilon. 



206 



CLASS OF l882. 




HON. J. WIGHT GIDDINGS, 

122 Walnut Street, 
Lansing, Mich. 

J. Wight Giddings was born in Romeo, Mich., September 
27, 1858; was fitted for college in the Romeo High School, 
and remained a year in Amherst College. He was editor of 
the Cadillac News from 1882 to 1887. Later he studied law 
and was admitted to the bar. Governor Giddings has been 
prominent in the Republican party of his state. For four years 
(1886-90) he served as State senator, and during the session of 
1889 was temporary president of the senate. In 1892 he was 
elected lieutenant governor, and served with distinction. 

In 1 90 1 he went to Arizona to engage in mining, and was 
superintendent of a mining camp for four years. He still 
retains mining interests, although he has moved back to his 
native state. For several years he has met with success as a 
lecturer under the direction of the American Lyceum Union. 

On January 31, 1883, he married Fidele E. Fitch of Fitchburg, 
Mich., who died October 28, 1905. One son, Ferris Harold, 
was born October 19, 1885, and died January 10, 1886. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 207 

SETH K. HOWES, 

17 Summit Avenue, 
St. Paul, Minn. 

Seth K. Howes was born in Hastings, Minn., January 19, 
i860; was fitted for college in Colgate Academy, Hamilton, 
N. Y., and remained three years in Amherst College. Very 
little has been heard of Mr. Howes, but it is known that he 
has prospered in dealing in gold and silver mining properties, 
stocks and bonds. ' 

On June 9, 1887, ne married Madge R. Brewster of Chicago, 
111. They have one child, Byron C, born March 8, i< 



FRANKLIN B. HUSSEY, ESQ., 

902 Ashland Block, Highland Park, 

Chicago, 111. Illinois. 

Franklin B. Hussey was born in Northampton, Mass., 
October 8, 1859, and was fitted for college in the Northampton 
High School. After leaving college he was for a time secre- 
tary and treasurer of the Hussey & Day Company, steam and 
hot water heating engineers, and dealers in gas and electric 
lighting chandeliers. Since 1895 he has been practicing law in 
Chicago. His principal practice is railroad corporation work, 
largely for the Chicago City Railway Company, Chicago Union 
Traction Company, and Consolidated Traction Company. 

On October 20, 1887, he married Jeanne T. Moore of Evans- 
ton, 111. They have one son, Robert Franklin, eleven years old. 

Mr. Hussey is a member of the Union League Club of Chicago 
and the Exmoor Country Club. 

In college he was a member of Chi Psi, and for some years 
was president of the Chicago Alumni Association of this frater- 
nity, and for five years a member of the national executive 
council. » 



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CLASS OF l882. 




F. B. INGRAHAM, 
Wellesley, Mass. 

Franklin Benton Ingraham was born in Vergennes, Vt., 
March 13, 1858, and was fitted for college in the Vergennes 
High School. He was for a time member of the firm of The 
Thorp and Adams Manufacturing Company, manufacturing 
and wholesale stationers and importers, 14 Milk Street, Boston, 
Mass. Since 1892 he has been engaged in the business of bank and 
office fittings, with architectural plans of banks and other build- 
ings. He is a director of the Wellesley National Bank. 

On October 25, 1888, he married Elizabeth T. Webb of Bos- 
ton and Wellesley, Mass. They have three children living: 
Temple, aged 16: Paul, 13; and Ethel, 9. Two have died — 
Edwin, the oldest, and Winthrop. 



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Copyrighted by Pirie Macdonald. 



WILLIAM TRAVERS JEROME, ESQ., 



District Attorney, 

New York, N. Y. 



Lakeville, 

Conn. 



William Travers Jerome was born April .8, .859. in New 
York City, and was fitted for college under a tutor and at W.l- 
liston Seminary. In 188, fie was obliged to leave college on 
account of ill health. In .892 be was given the degree MA by 
Amherst College. He studied law in Columbia Law School 
(!88l- 4 ). receiving the degree LL.B. He first formed a part- 
nership for the practice of law with Daniel Nason, Esq. 
(Amherst '81), under the firm name of Jerome & Nason. He 
has been active in legal work, and has held many important posi- 
tions. He is a Democrat and has taken an active mterest m 
New York politics. He was assistant district attorney of New 
York County for three years (1888-90); justice of speaal 
sessions (l8 95 -*9°2) I and district attorney of New York County 
since then (elected in 1901). He is a member of the Bar Asso- 

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2IO CLASS OF l882. 

ciation, and of the following clubs : Nineteenth Century, City, 
Civic, Union, and Manhattan Chess. He has a country place in 
Lakeville, Conn. 

On May 9, 1888, he married Lavinia Howe of Elizabeth, N. J. 
They have one son, William Travers, Jr., born July 15, 1890 
(student in the Hotchkiss School). 

Mr. Jerome was a member of Delta Upsilon. 

H. M. LINNELL, 
Catskill, N. Y. 

Herbert Montague Linnell, the son of Jonathan E. and 
Fannie A. Linnell, was born at Worcester, Mass., April 12, 
i860, and prepared for college at the Norwich (Conn.) Free 
Academy. 

He left '81 after one year, remained with '82 for a short time, 
finally leaving Amherst and going into business in Boston in 
connection with the Thomson-Houston Electric Company. In 
1884 ne became business manager of the Schuyler Electric 
Company, removing to New York City in 1888. Since 1889 
he has been in business on his own account as a contractor in 
electric lighting. He has lived in Boston, London, and New 
York since 1891, during which time he spent thirteen months 
in Europe on account of ill health. 

He was married September 21, 1891, to Jane, daughter of 
Eben and S. E. Baldwin, of Yonkers, N. Y., and has two chil- 
dren : Gertrude Baldwin, born .December 30, 1892 ; Elizabeth 
Cochran, born October 1, 1897. 

He is still living at Catskill, N. Y., and reports no change in 
his affairs. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. J 

S. H. LONGLEY, ESQ., 

Worcester, Mass. 

Samuel H. Longley was born January II, 1861, in Groton, 
Mass and was fitted for college at Lawrence Academy, Groton. 
He studied law in Harvard Law School (1886-8), and was 
admitted to the bar July 17, 1888. For a time his home was in 
Shirley, Mass., and he practiced law in Boston and in Middlesex 
County. He was chairman of the selectmen (1892), and special 
justice (1890-2). For a number of years he has resided in 
Worcester, where he has had a large practice. In 1894 he was 
graduated from Harvard with the degree of A.B. 
5 On May 23, 1883, he married Lizzie Edgarton of Shirley. 
Their children are: Claire E., born November 11, 1888; Mary 
E., born December 4, 1891 \ Samuel E., born August 27, 1893 I 
Emily E., born February 26, 1898; Josephine E., born May 21, 
1899. 

JOHN W. LOW, 

Evening Sun, 
New York, N. Y. 

John Watkins Low was born in Monticello, N. Y., Decem- 
ber 28, 1861 ; was fitted for college under a tutor and in the 
Amherst High School; entered Amherst with the Class of 1882, 
and was graduated in 1883. He was editor of The Register, 
Liberty, Sullivan County, N. Y. (1883-5); height agent of 
the Morris County Railroad (1885-8) ; private secretary to his 
father for a time; with the Ryder Engine Company, 37 Dey 
Street, New York, and engaged in real estate business in Middle- 
town, N. Y. He is a writer on the New York Evening Sun. 
He is a member of the Holland Society of New York. 

On December 20, 1889, he married Elizabeth R. Scott of 
Middletown, N. Y. 



CLASS OF l882. 




ARTHUR F. ODLIN, ESQ., 

Tremont Building, 
Boston, Mass. 

Arthur F. Odlin was born in Concord, N. H., April 25, 
i860; was fitted for college in Phillips Academy, Andover, 
Mass., and remained in Amherst about three years. He studied 
law in Boston University Law School (1884-5), receiving the 
degree LL.B. cum laude. He was admitted to the bar of New 
Hampshire, July 31, 1885. From December, 1885, till the fall 
of 1898 he practiced law in Orlando, Fla. He removed to Porto 
Rico, and when the new civil government came into existence, 
was made the first Attorney General of Porto Rico (April 30, 
1900), and held that position a year. In February, 1961, he 
received an appointment as a judge of the new Court of First 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 213 

Instance, then being- organized in the Philippine Islands. He 
served in the city of Manila until January I, 1903, and in the 
Provinces until the close of 1904. Entering- a leading law firm 
in the city of Manila, he engaged in practice until the summer of 
1906, when he decided to give up his work in the Philippines, 
largely owing to Mrs. Odlin's impaired health. He is now 
a member of the firm of Noyes, Odlin & Wellman. 

He has taken keen satisfaction in having his most important 
decision sustained by the United States Supreme Court, after 
he had been reversed by a majority of the judges of the Supreme 
Court of the Philippine Islands (see 201 U. S. Sup. Ct., page 
303). In addition to his legal work, he is appearing with 
success upon the lecture platform. 

On October 5, 1886, he married Mary Emma Allen of Lan- 
caster, N. H. They have two children, Lawrence Allen (named 
after "Scotchy" Lawrence), born September 7, 1889; and 
Evelyn, born August 30, 1893. 

F. W. LAWRENCE, 
Saratoga, N. Y. 
Franklin W. Lawrence was born in Pennsylvania, June 12, 
i860. At last report he was proprietor of the Excelsior Spring 
of Saratoga. 

He married Emily C. Sylvester of Saratoga in January, 1884. 
They have one child, Emelie S., born in January, 1886. 



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CLASS OF l882. 




EDWARD C. POTTER, 



Greenwich, Conn. 

Edward Clark Potter, sculptor, was born at New London, 
Conn., November 26, 1857. At an early age he was taken to 
Enfield, Mass., where his boyhood was passed until he was 
seventeen years of age, when he began a four years' preparatory 
course at Williston Seminary, Easthampton. In 1878 he entered 
Amherst College. He began drawing at the Boston Art 
Museum under Frederick Crowninshield and Otto Grundman, 
and modelling with Truman H. Bartlett. In 1886 he studied 
sculpture seriously with Daniel Chester French, and for two 
years following worked under Mercier and Fremiet in Paris. 
He exhibited at the Salon several small groups of rabbits, the 
bust of a negro, and a sketch from an Indian group. A sleep- 
ing infant faun, with rabbit, executed in Paris, was sold to the 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 215 

Art Institute of Chicago, where it may now be seen. In col- 
laboration with Mr. French, Mr. Potter made the famous groups 
of horses and bulls for the Quadriga at the Columbian exposition, 
Chicago, in 1893. The noble horses, two and two, were led 
by maidens, whose flying draperies contributed movement and 
color, while the decorative effect, as well as the originality of the 
work, was accentuated by youthful standard-bearers, who served 
as outriders. Said Mr. Taft in the "History of American 
Sculpture" : "No more beautiful quadriga has been sculptured 
in modern times. . . It is probable that no American sculptor 
knows the horse quite so well as Mr. Potter. Several have 
shown great aptitude for equestrian statuary, — Brown, Ward, 
St. Gaudens, MacMonnies, and Niehaus, but most experienced 
of all in this particular field is Mr. French's old-time pupil and 
all-time colleague." They have produced conjointly equestrian 
statues of Gen. Grant in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia; Gen. 
Washington in Paris and Chicago, and Gen. Hooker in Boston. 
Mr. Potter has not restricted himself to animal sculpture, how- 
ever, or to partnership enterprises. He has designed a statue 
of Robert Fulton in the Congressional Library dome, Washing- 
ton, and a statue of Gov. Austin Blair, which stands before the 
state capitol at Lansing, Mich., — a model of sober portraiture, on 
a pedestal no less deserving of mention. His equestrian statue 
of Gen. Slocum on the battlefield of Gettysburg, appearing 
coincidentally with Mr. MacMonnies's interpretation of the same 
commander, serves to illustrate the different points of view of 
two skillful artists. He has also executed two lions, finials 
for the gate-posts at the entrance to Collis P. Huntington's resi- 
dence in New York City; a bust of William A. Wheeler for 
the senate chamber, Washington ; the statue of John Paul Jones 
on the Dewey arch in New York; an equestrian statue of 
De Soto, St. Louis Exposition ; again in collaboration with 
Mr. French equestrian statue of Gen. Devens, Worcester, Mass. ; 
July, 1906, lions for J. Pierpont Morgan Library and two figures 
for the new Brooklyn Institute, of Indian Religion and Indian 
Philosophy. Mr. Potter is a member of the National Sculpture 



2l6 CLASS OF l882. 

Society, the National Arts Club, the society of American Artists, 
the Architectural League of New York, and was elected an 
Academician, N. A. 1907. 

On December 31, 1890, he married May Dumont of Wash- 
ington, D. C. They have three children: Hazel Dumont, born 
October 14, 1891 ; Nathan Dumont, born April 30, 1893 ; Ruth, 
born February 1, 1896. 

Mr. Potter was a member of Delta Upsilon. 



VISCOUNT TADUBUMI TORII, 

11 Kojimachi Naka Roku Bancho, 
Tokyo, Japan. 

Tadubumi Torii was a member of the Daimio, or ruling class 
of feudal Japan. On the reorganization of that country ninety 
per cent, of their property was taken from these lords, and many 
of them went into business. After leaving Amherst Viscount 
Torii was for a time in business in Boston. Upon his return to 
Japan he entered the Foreign Office, serving as Vice Consul in 
Hawaii and as chief of the Bureau of Telegraphs until his eleva- 
tion to the House of Peers, which occurred eighteen years ago. 
He still retains a lively interest in Amherst College, preserving 
among his souvenirs his old Gymnasium uniform with "Amherst 
'82" embroidered upon it. His promised photograph has evi- 
dently been lost in transmission. 



W. H. VAN BUREN. 

Wilson H. Van Buren, after leaving Amherst College, 
entered Union College, and was graduated from that institution 
in 1882, taking the Third Allen Essay Prize at Commencement. 
He was last reported to be in the real estate business in Tacoma. 

A later address is given as : — 232 West Lincoln Avenue, Mount 
Vernon, N. Y. 



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217 




F. D. VAN WAGENEN, 
Fulton, N. Y. 

Frederick D. Van Wagenen was born August 8, 1859 ; was 
fitted for college in Falley Seminary, Fulton, N. Y. ; remained a 
term in Amherst College, and was graduated from Union Col- 
lege in 1882. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 
July, 1884. He has for many years devoted himself to flori- 
culture, and is now a prosperous seedsman. 

On July 13, 1882, he married Eleanor V. Gilmour of Fulton. 
They have three children: Mary E., born August 2, 1884; Char- 
lotte L., born March 22, 1886; and Gilmour, born October 18, 
1889. 



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CLASS OF l882. 




REV. JOSEPH WHEELWRIGHT, 
Tamworth, N. H. 

Joseph Wheelwright was born October 2, i860, in Byfield, 
Mass., and was fitted for college in Phillips Academy, Andover, 
Mass. He left Amherst in the spring term of his freshman year 
owing to ill health. He was for a time a member of Amherst 
'83, and later of Amherst '85. His health has at times been poor, 
and his work has been much interrupted on this account. From 
1891 to 1893 he was a student in Andover Theological Seminary. 
He was pastor of the Congregational Church at Rochester, Mass. 
(1893-5) > an d resided in Danvers and Byfield during 1896. 
Then followed pastorates at Hebron, N. H. (1897-9); Green- 
field, Mass. (1890-1) ; Prescott, Mass. (1902-3). He resided 
at Byfield from 1903 to 1905, and in May, 1905, he began pastoral 
work in Tamworth, which position he still holds. 

On January 22, 1884, he married Alice R. Upton of Salem, 
Mass. They have one child, Grace Adams, born April 3, 1885, 
who is now married and the mother of the class's first grandchild. 



THE OBITUARY RECORD 




FRANK DICKINSON HASTINGS, 



The son of Ephraim Little and Julia (Dickinson) Hastings, 
was born in Hatfield, Mass., November 24, 1856, and was fitted 
for college at Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass. After 
graduation he accepted the position of instructor of mathematics 
in Park College, Parkville, Mo., where he died suddenly, 
December 8, 1882. 



CLASS OF l882. 





HENRY WINFIELD MATTHEWS, 



The son of William Henry and Sarah Margaret (Shannon) 
Matthews, was born in Chelsea, Mass., November 9, 1861, and 
was prepared for college in his native city. After graduation 
he began the study of theology in the Yale Divinity School, 
completing but a single term. He died of diphtheria in Chelsea, 
Mass., December 27, 1882. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 




BERWICK MANNING, 



The son of the Rev. Dr. Jacob Merrill and Anna (Berwick) 
Manning, was born in Boston, January 21, 1859, and was pre- 
pared for college in the Boston Latin School. After graduation 
he spent one year in Newton (Mass.) Theological Institution, 
and one in a course of post-graduate study in Harvard Uni- 
versity, from which he received the degree M.A. in 1884. He 
died after a brief illness at Littleton, N. H., July 28, 1884. Mr. 
Manning was never married. 



CLASS OF l882. 




HOSEA GORDON BLAKE, 



The son of Joseph and Carrie (Abell) Blake, was born in Ash- 
field, Mass., May 24, 1861, and was fitted for college at the 
Vermont Methodist Seminary, Montpelier, Vt. Upon gradua- 
tion he studied theology at the Hartford Theological Seminary 
for one year, but was obliged to relinquish the ministry on 
account of throat disease. In July, 1883, he became associate 
editor of the Sunday School Times, at Philadelphia, Pa., where 
he continued until his death from typhoid fever, August 13, 
1885. He was a frequent contributor in prose and verse to 
various magazines and other periodicals. Air. Blake was 
unmarried. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 



223 




DONALD HARVEY, 



The son of Enoch B. and Ann (Cameron) Harvey, was born 
in Calais, Me., February 28, i860, and was fitted for college at 
Calais Academy. He studied law with his father and was 
admitted to the bar in September, 1885, at Minneapolis, Minn. 
He practiced his profession in that city from that time until his 
death from heart disease, January 8, 1888. Mr. Harvey was 
unmarried. 



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CLASS OF l882. 





GEORGE WILLIAM LYMAN, 

The son of William E. and Flavia (Walcott) Lyman, was born 
in Amherst, March 3, 1855, and was prepared for college in the 
Amherst High School. Upon graduation he became principal 
of the high school at North Oxford, Mass. ; from January, 1883, 
to April, 1886, he was principal of the high school in South 
Hadley. The remainder of his life he was principal of the 
high school in North Attleborough, Mass. He died of malarial 
fever at North Attleborough, Mass., January 14, 1889. 

"Mr. Lyman met the requirements of his position as principal 
of the high school with skill and efficiency, and leaves a record of 
successful administration in every way honorable to him as a 
man and teacher. He was heartily in love with his chosen pro- 
fession and sought with zealous care to perfect himself in the 
knowledge and virtues demanded by his high calling. His 
devotion to duty bore abundant fruitage in the hearts of his 
pupils. Those who knew him best bear the strongest testimony 
to his sterling character and his many virtues as a noble Christian 
gentleman." 

Mr. Lyman was married January 24, 1884, to Ella A., daugh- 
ter of Augustine G. Gleason, of North Oxford, Mass., who 
survives him. No children. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 



225 




LORENZO WADSWORTH TUCK, 



The son of Lorenzo and Lucy (Wads worth) Tuck, was born 
at South Weymouth, Mass., July 15, i860, and was fitted for 
college at the high school of his native town. He studied medi- 
cine at the Harvard Medical School and was graduated there in 
1887. In July of that year he was appointed house physician 
and surgeon in the City Hospital, Boston, and continued in that 
position until his death from diphtheria, October 19, 1888. Dr. 
Tuck was unmarried. 



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226 



CLASS OF l882. 





EDWARD EMORY ALDRICH 



Was born in Worcester, Mass., a son of the distinguished 
jurist, the late Judge Emory Aldrich. He was fitted for college 
in his native town. For three years after graduation he was 
with S. D. Warren & Company, paper manufacturers, at Cum- 
berland Mills, Me. He began at the bottom of the ladder and 
worked faithfully to learn the paper business. At the end of 
that time, there being no opening in that branch of manufactur- 
ing, he accepted a responsible position with the Leatherbee 
Lumber Company, in Parkersburg, West Virginia, and there he 
remained, winning the kindly approbation of the firm, until the 
winter of 1900, when his health broke down and he was brought 
home to Worcester. From that time, although he often 
attempted work, and for brief intervals with marked success, 
he never regained his lost health, and steadily and surely failed, 
both bodily and mentally, until July 18, 1905, when he passed 
quietly away. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 



227 




HENRY MARTYN HOWLAND, 

The son of Rev. William W. Howland, Class of 1841, and Susan 
(Reed) Howland, and brother of Rev. S. W. Howland, D.D., 
Class of 1870, and David B. Howland, Class of 1883, was born 
in Conway, Mass., December 21, 1858, and was fitted for college 
at Williston Seminary. 

The first year after graduation he was principal of Hinsdale, 
Mass., high school, and the next year teacher in a grammar 
school in East Greenwich, R. I. He was a member of Andover 
Theological Seminary, 1884-1887, and was licensed to preach, 
May 18, 1886. He was a student in Jefferson Medical College, 
Penn., one year. 

He was physical director of the Y. M. C. A. at Philadelphia, 
1887-1890, at Scranton, Penn., 1 890-1 893 ; general secretary 
and physical director and teacher of physical culture at 
Pasadena, Cal., 1896-1906. For several years he was also 
assistant pastor of the Congregational Church at Long Beach, 
in the same State. 

He died of cancer of the liver at Los Angeles, Cal., Decem- 
ber 31, 1906. He was married to Elizabeth Perry of Conway, 
Mass., who with their eight children survives him. 



228 



CLASS OF 1882. 







ALBERT WELLMAN HITCHCOCK. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. y 229 

ALBERT WELLMAN HITCHCOCK 

Was born January 19, 1861, at Kalamazoo, Mich., the son of a 
New England physician who made his name known and honored 
over the entire State. Fitting for college at the local high 
school, I took the Freshman year in Kalamazoo Baptist College, 
now affiliated with Chicago University. At Amherst I belonged 
to Psi Upsilon and to a class group known as Beta Pi. I was 
always grateful to the class for the way in which they adopted me 
into their membership, — largely because Ufford chummed 
with me. 

After graduation teaching became my profession for four 
years, as principal of schools in Frankfort and in Decatur, Mich., 
and then as master of the high school in Kalamazoo. By that 
time my life work was chosen, and I had saved enough money 
for a professional course. I went to the Divinity School of 
Yale University, where I was elected President of the Class of 
1889, and the election was made permanent upon our gradua- 
tion. The Hooker Fellowship was given me on completion of 
the course, thus providing for two years of further study. 
Thayer and Bixler had taken the Fellowships of the two years 
preceding, so that it seemed to belong to '82. After a year 
of post-graduate work at Yale, I spent a year abroad, studying 
at Berlin and Oxford. Upon my return, I was called to' the 
Belleville Congregational Church in Newburyport, Mass. Three 
days after my ordination, I was married to Margarette M. 
Osgood (Smith '83), of Salem, Mass., and during the pastorate 
in Newburyport three daughters were born to us, — Harriet, Sep- 
tember 18, 1892, Katharine, June 8, 1895, and Margaret Fiske, 
April 17, 1898. 

After nine happy years, I began my present pastorate Janu- 
ary 1, 1 90 1, in the Central Congregational Church, Worcester, 
Mass., where I have been fortunate not only in my church, but 
in being able to renew some studies at Clark University, and to 
take my Doctor's degree in June, 1906. I have made the venture 
of preaching in Amherst College Chapel, and found it much less 
dreadful as an experience than I had expected. 

In 1898 I published a modest volume entitled "Questions and 
Answers about the Bible," New York, Thos. Whittaker, pp. 
154. In 1900, "A Christmas Catechism of One Hundred Ques- 
tions," Boston, The Pilgrim Press, pp. 32. And my Doctor's 
thesis will be printed soon, a study in the genetic growth of 



230 CLASS OF l882. 

Jesus, entitled "The Psychology of Jesus," making a book of 
about 250 pages. I have printed the usual number of articles 
in current papers and magazines ; sermons, etc. 

In college I looked longingly toward my father's profession, 
and had decided to enter it, but maturer reflection brought me 
back to an earlier decision for the ministry. I believe I made 
no mistake. The chance of the modern minister for high 
service to society as a preacher, a pastor, and a teacher of public 
and private morals, is unexcelled in any profession or in any 
age of the world. I have found the old friendships of Amherst 
enduring, especially those with Ufford, with whom there have 
always been closest bonds ; and with Thayer. We three, with 
Bixler, were together again at Yale. If I had a boy, I think 
I would send him to Amherst for his college course, and then 
to one of the great universities for his professional studies. 
The Amherst men who influenced me most were President 
Seelye, Tip Tyler, and Garman. It is a pleasure to meet '82 
men always, and I feel a debt to our efficient Secretary for his 
zeal in bringing, us together. 

(This letter of Dr. Hitchcock's is given without alterations.) 



Dr. Hitchcock's death occurred April 10, 1907, following an 
operation for appendicitis. Mrs. Hitchcock has taken up her 
residence in Salem, Mass. 



NON-GRADUATES 




WALTER C. BLANCHARD 



Was born January 22, 1859, in Maiden, Mass., was fitted for 
college in Maiden High School, and remained in Amherst Col- 
lege three years. ■ He then became associated with the firm of 
Ward and Gay, Boston, Mass., and later was a member of the 
firm of the Sam'l \Vard Company. Mr. Blanchard was twice 
married. On January 13, 1886, he married Clara Etta Paige, of 
Maiden, Mass. A daughter, Etta Paige, was born to them 
December 15, 1886. Mrs. Blanchard died two weeks later. Mr. 
Blanchard's second marriage was with Florence Maude Blanch- 
ard, of Dorchester, April 17, 1889. Mr. Blanchard's health 
failed, and his death occurred February 26, 1890. 



232 CLASS OF 1882. 



HUBERT M. HOWLAND 

Died of consumption, July, 1885. He was born in 1861 in New 
Bedford, and was fitted for college in the New Bedford High 
School. He left college during Sophomore year. In 1880, he 
married Miss Anna C. Pierce of New Bedford, and had one 
daughter. 

SCOTT SMITH SILLIMAN, 

The son of Isaac H. Silliman, was born at Stamford, N. Y., 
January 15, 1855, and was prepared for college at the high 
school in his native town. He entered Amherst in the fall of 
1878, left at the end of two years, reentered in September, 1882, 
and was graduated one year later. Immediately after gradua- 
tion he began a course of study in Columbia Law School and 
had finished the first year when he was taken suddenly ill. 
Growing better, he started for his father's home in Stamford, 
N. Y., but died before reaching it, May 29, 1884. Mr. Silli- 
man was never married. 



GEORGE PEABODY ELLISON, 

The son of George and Jane E. (Hildreth) Ellison, was born 
in East Creek, N. Y., April 6, 1859, and was fitted for college 
at Utica (N. Y.) Free Academy. After graduation he became 
a bank clerk in Utica. In 1885 his health began to fail and he 
died of consumption, at Utica, May 4, 1! 



WILLIAM KITTREDGE STEARNS 

Was born in Bombay, India, May 18, i860; was fitted for col- 
lege in the Amherst High School, and entered Amherst with 
the Class of 1882. His health soon began to fail and he went 
to Colorado. He died of consumption, in Colorado Springs, 
May 12, 1 88 1. 

RICHARD WILKINS SAYLOR, 

The son of Henry and Mary A. Saylor, was born at Schuylkill 
Haven, Penn., December 28, 1859, an d was connected with '82 
for a short time during Freshman year. After leaving Amherst 
he studied medicine, graduating and receiving the degree M.D. 
from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, in 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 233 

1882. He subsequently practiced medicine at Pottstown, 
McEwensville, and Easton, Penn. He was married, February 
11, 1885, to May, daughter of Dr. W. L. and Mary Grover Leaf, 
of Pottstown, Penn., and had one child, Ruth Leigh, born May 
2, 1886. He died at Pottstown, January 26, 1891, of rheumatism 
of the heart. 

EUGENE L. BURPEE 

Was born in Salisbury, Mass., March 19, i860. He was the 
son of Albert and Ann B. (Trussell) Burpee. Burpee was a 
member of the class for the Freshman year only, and then 
returned to his home in Haverhill, Mass. He married Georgie 
A. Clark, May i, 1883. For a number of years he held clerical 
positions and later was employed in shoe manufacturing. He 
died of appendicitis, January 17, 1900. He left a widow and 
four children, Edith C., Luther T., May E., and Blanche T. 
While Burpee met but one of the class after he left college 
and could not attend the reunions, it is a pleasure to record 
that among those who did know him he has left the name of 
being a good-hearted, honest man, who had to contend with hard 
conditions for years. 



OUR OLIO: 1882-1907 



THE CLASS. 

Living Died Total 

Graduates 55 10 65 

Non-graduates 2J 7 34 

Totals 82 17 99 

Married. 

Allen, Arnd, Bellows, Bixler, Blatchford, Bliss, Cowan, Cushing, Ely, 
F. W. Greene, W. S. Greene, Hale, Hall, Hobbs, Howard, Hayward, 
Knapp, Lawrence, Lovell, Loomis, Martin, Mills, Nason, Nichols, Partridge, 
Perry, Proctor, Reed, Richardson, Rouse, Savage, R. C. Smith, W. D. 
Smith, Stanford, Stearns, Stoddard, Thayer, Thompson, Tucker, Wash- 
burn, Watters, Whitehead, Whiting, Wier, Williams, Wing (46), Lyman, 
Howland, Hitchcock (3). (49) 

Burton, Chase, Child, Currier, Cushman, Day, Fisher, Giddings, Howes, 
Hussey, Ingraham, Jerome, Lawrence, Longley, Low, Linnell, Odin, 
Potter, VanWagenen, Wheelwright (20), Blanchard, Howland,, Saylor, 
Burpee (4). (24) 

Living 

Children of Graduates 139 127 

Children of Non-Graduates 41 38 

Total 180 165 

Occupations, 1907. 

Theology— Bixler, Bliss, Burt, F. W. Greene, Hall, Hobbs, Loomis, Mills, 

Reed, Rouse, R. C. Smith, Stanford, Stearns, Thayer, Watters, 

Whitehead. (16) 

— Wheelwright. (1) 

Business — Blatchford, Bush, Camp, Cowan, Draper, Ely, Howard, Hunt, 

Hayward, Knapp, Lawrence, Proctor, Tucker, Williams, Wing. (15) 

— Albree, Chase, Child, Currier, Day, Howes, Ingraham, Lawrence, 

Linnell, VanBuren. (10) 

Teaching — Cushing, W. S. Greene, Hale, Nichols, Perry, Richardson, 

Rolfe, W. D. Smith, Stoddard, Thompson. (10) 

— Burton. (1) 

Medicine— Bellows, Martin, Savage, Washburn, Whiting. (5) 

—Dyer. ( r ) 

Law — Allen, Arnd, Partridge, Wier. (4) 

— Cate, Cushman, Giddings, Hussey, Jerome, Longley, Odlin, Torii, 

VanWagenen. ' (9) 

Unclassified— Bancroft (History), Judd (Library), Lovell (Biology), 

Nason (Mining), Ufford (Charities). (5) 

—Fisher (Architecture), Low (Journalism), Potter (Sculpture). (3) 



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THE CHILDREN. 



Warren S. Bellows 
Sabra Julia Bellows 
Julius Seelye Bixler 
Elizabeth Bixler 
James Wilson Bixler, 2D 
John Blatchford 
Dorothy Lord Blatchford 
Barbara Blatchford 
Charles Lord Blatchford 
Mary William Bliss 
Margaret Blatchford Bliss 
Alice Wood Bliss 
Daniel Bliss 

Howard Huntington Bliss 
Emily Rose Burt 
Lilian Sarah Burt 
Katharine Isabel Burt 
Asahel Bush 
Paul Van Santvoord Camp 
*Henry Sewall Camp 
Frances Knowlton Camp 
*Jesse Gillespie Cowan 
*Lucy Eddy Cushing 
Joseph Shattuck Ely 
Richard Sanford Ely 
Theodore Ainsworth Greene 
Walter Ferrar Greene 
Anna Bancroft Greene 
Dorothy Minot Greene 
Frederick Standish Greene 
William Ainsworth Greene 
Ruth Newcomb Greene 
John Morton Greene, Jr. 
Mary Gilman Hale 
*Agnes Sarah Hale 
*Elizabeth Com stock Hale 
Helen Morton Hale 
Lucy Dwinell Hale 
Clarissa Merwin Hall 
Francis Cooley Hall 
*Robert Gordon Hall 
Gordon Rexford Hall 
Merwin Porter Hall 
George Phillips Hall 
Helen Hayward 
Sheldon Conant Hayward 
Harold Wade Hobbs 
Helen Louise Hobbs 



Myron Bartlett Howard 
Samuel Anton Howard, Jr. 
Henry Perry Howland 
David Dunbar Howland 
Elizabeth Maria Howland 
Harriet Irene Howland 
Rose Howland 
Harriet Hitchcock 
Katherine Hitchcock 
Margaret Fiske Hitchcock 
Gertrude Emerson Knapp 
Elizabeth Goddard Knapp 
Helen Brackett Knapp 
Gladys Crocker Lawrence 
Frederic Colt Loomis 
George Colt Loomis 
*Frank W. Loomis 
Charles W. Loomis, Jr. 
Harvey Bulfinch Lovell 
Edward Homer Martin, Jr. 
Carl Martin 
Harold Martin 
Mabel Martin 
Marjorie Martin 
Margaret Morris Mills 
Charles Morris Mills 
Stanley Lamberton Nason 
Alexis Nason 
George Henry Nichols 
Mary Webster Nichols 
*Gilbert Nichols 
Joseph H. Perry, Jr. 
Lydia P. Perry 
Emily Proctor 
Mortimer Proctor 
Minnie Proctor 
Waldo Burt Reed 
*Charlotte Thompson Reed 
*Harold Edward Reed 
Raymond Vincent Reed 
Marguerite Richardson 
Hallock Rouse 
Winifred Rouse 
Mary Waite Rouse 
*Helen Savage 
Dorothy Davis Savage 
Richard Billings Savage 
Watson Lewis Savage, Jr. 



* Deceased. 



236 



CLASS OF 1882. 



Kirkwood Hallock Savage 
John Cotton Smith 
William Otis Smith 
Margaret Sigourney Smith 
Elizabeth Moulton Smith 
Philip King Smith 
Dorothy Eunice Smith 
Emily Hazen Smith 
Douglas Clark Stearns 
William Foster Stearns, Jr. 
Walter Eugene Stoddard 
Ethel Morrison Stoddard 
Dorothy Goldthwait Thayer 
Lucius Ellsworth Thayer 
Sherman Rand Thayer 
William Haven Thompson, Jr. 
Charles Crawford Thompson 
Ruth Frances Thompson 
Dorothy Lewis Thompson 
Marjorie Emma Thompson 



Anna Loraine Washburn 
George Edward Washburn 
Arthur Hoyt Washburn 
Alfred Hamlin Washburn 

^Frances Washburn 
Florence Ada Watters 
Philip Sidney Watters 
Hyla Stowell Watters 
Mary Elizabeth Whitehead 
Charles Edson Whitehead 
Frederick Loder Whiting 
Margaret Murray Whiting 
Elizabeth Whiting 
Carolyn Wheeler Williams 
Lois Katherine Williams 

*John Camp Williams, Jr. 

*Abby Dorothy Williams 
Kenneth Wing 
Hester Wing 
Franklin Wing 



Harrison Hayford Child, Jr. 

Earle L. Currier 
*dorothy cushman 

Caroline Cushman 

Marjorie Day 

Henry Stockwell Day 

Chester Sessions Day 

Russell Warren Fisher 

Ernest Withington Fisher 
*Ferris Harold Giddings 

Byron C. Howes 

Robert Franklin Hussey 
*Edwin Ingraham 

Temple Ingraham 

Paul Ingraham 
*Winthrop Ingraham 

Ethel Ingraham 

William Travers Jerome, Jr. 

Emelie S. Lawrence 

Gertrude Baldwin Linnell 

Elizabeth Cochran Linnell 

* Deceased 



Clare E. Longley 
Mary E. Longley 
Samuel E. Longley 
Emily E. Longley 
Josephine E. Longley 
Lawrence Allen Odlin 
Evelyn Odlin 
Hazel Dltmont Potter 
Nathan Potter 
Ruth Potter 
Mary E. Van Wagenen 
Charlotte L. Van Wagenen 
Gilmour Van Wagenen 
Grace Adams Wheelwright 
Etta Paige Blanchard 
Ruth Leigh Saylor 
Edith C. Burpee 
Luther T. Burpee 
May E. Burpee 
Blanche T. Burpee 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 237 

Table showing number born in various states and countries, and 
number at present living in various states and territories : 

BORN IN PRESENT LOCATION IN 

— Argentine 1 

— Arizona 1 

— Canada 2 

— California 3 

8 Connecticut 7 

1 China o 

— District of Columbia 2 

5 Illinois 3 

1 Indian Territory — ■ 

— Kentucky 1 

1 Japan 2 

1 Maine 2 

32 Massachusetts 21 

— Mexico 1 

1 Minnesota 3 

— Missouri 2 

2 Michigan 

— Nebraska 1 

3 New Hampshire 4 

11 New York 14 

— North Dakota 1 

1 . . Ohio — 

1 Oregon 1 

2 Pennsylvania 1 

1 Syria 1 

1 Turkey — 

5 Vermont 4 

— Virginia 1 

— Washington 1 



From these figures it can be seen that there has been a decided 
drift on the part of our Massachusetts-born boys towards the 
West and South. The center of our population as regards places 
of birth was in the northwestern corner of Massachusetts not 
far from Pittsfield; at present it is at a point south of Albany, 
New York. 

From the records we find that two were born in 1853, five in 
1855, two in 1856, five in 1857, eight in 1858, twenty-one in 
1859, twenty-six in i860, sixteen in 1861, and one in 1862. Our 
average age at graduation was twenty-two years and three 
months. 

The men of the class arranged according to age : — Loomis, 
Cate, Silliman, Lyman, Whitehead, Reed, Hayward, Hastings, 
Nason, Stanford, Knapp, Dyer, Potter, Thayer, Bush, Judd, 



238 CLASS OF l882. 

Howard, Ingraham, Perry, Burt, Giddings, Child, Hobbs, Hale, 
Manning, Blanchard, Albree, Ufford, Ellison, Jerome, Nichols, 
Rouse, Blatchford, Van Wagenen, Thompson, Williams, Hussey, 
Chase, Hall, Savage, F. W. Greene, Saylor, Stearns, Richard- 
son, Howes, Hunt, Harvey, W. S. Greene, Day, R. C. Smith, 
Linnell, Odlin, Lawrence, W. K. Stearns, Washburn, F. W. 
Lawrence, Tuck, Rolfe, Allen, Wing, Cushman, Watters, Stod- 
dard, Lovell, Bancroft, Wheelwright, Proctor, Draper, Ely, 
Bliss, Camp, Longley, Mills, Fisher, Whiting, Martin, Bixler, 
Partridge, Blake, Wier, Cushing, Bellows, Matthews, Arnd, Low, 
Tucker. 

The men of the Class of '82, after graduation from Amherst, 
have been associated with the following institutions as teachers, 
students, trustees, presidents, or recipients of degrees: — 

Amherst College. Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 
Andover Theological Seminary. nology. 

Astor Library. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary. 

Bellevue Medical College. New York Polytechnic Medical 
Boston University. School. 

Berlin University. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. 

Clark University. University of Minnesota. 

Chautauqua University. St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Boston. 
Columbia University. -. St. Bartholomew's Hospital. 

Catawba College. New York Hospital. 

Cornell University. University of Missouri. 

Chicago University. University of Oxford. 

Doshisha. Oberlin College. 
Free Hospital for Women, Boston. College of Physicians and Sur- 
Gottingen University. geons. 

General Theological Seminary. Pacific Seminary. 

Harvard University. University of Paris. 

Heidelberg University. Roanoke College. 

Hartford Theological Seminary. St. Margaret's Hospital, Kansas City. 

Johns Hopkins University. Syrian Protestant College. 
International Y. M. C. A. Training Tufts College. 

School. Union College. 

Knox College. Union Theological Seminary. 

University of Leipzig. University of Vermont. 

Lane Theological Seminary. University of Vienna. 

Long Island College Hospital. Wesleyan University. 
Mary Fletcher Hospital, Burlington. Yale University. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 239 

Our men are now more widely scattered than ever. Rev. A. 
W. Stanford is still in Japan ; E. P. Draper is in Cananea, Mex- 
ico ; G. O. C. Lawrence is in the Argentine Republic ; Rev. H. 
S. Bliss is in Syria; Chase, Hale, and Stoddard are in California; 
A. N. Bush is in Oregon; Dyer has been in the Klondike; Day 
is in Canada ; Reed is in North Dakota ; Lovell is in Maine ; 
Odlin has returned from the Philippines and is now in Boston ; 
Nason resides in Connecticut, but has been all over this continent. 
Fifteen of the class are sons of college graduates ; twenty-one 
are sons of merchants, eleven of clergymen, seven of farmers, 
four of bankers, three of mechanics. Fifty per cent, of the class 
are engaged in work that they prophesied for themselves during 
Senior year. Eighteen said they would be clergymen ; thirteen 
kept their word, and ten others joined them. Nine would be 
physicians ; six kept their word. Ten said they would be busi- 
ness men; there are fifteen. It required $156,000 to take our 
sixty-five men through college. 



The presence of so many children at our last reunion was one 
of its delightful features. They certainly reflected credit upon 
the class, if their mothers will pardon this assumption. If it 
had been generally known that the young people were coming 
in such numbers it is fair to state that we would have been 
swamped in providing accommodations. One of Fisher's sons was 
graduated from Harvard at this time ; and one of Martin's took 
part in a prize-speaking contest at Middlebury College. 

A sense of oldness comes to us when we reflect that we have 
a grandchild in our number ; Wheelwright has a granddaughter. 
Watters' son is taking high rank at Princeton. Whitehead's 
daughter was a high-stand student in the University of Cincinnati. 
Reed's son, Waldo, who is preparing for Amherst at the Spring- 
field High School, shared in our festivities. Burt's daughters 
have taken high rank at Mount Holyoke College. A large num- 
ber of the sons of our classmates are preparing for Amherst; 
location and connections are inclining a few to Harvard, Yale, 
and Princeton. Currier has a son in Harvard ; Proctor's son is 
taking his last year at the Hill School ; Jerome's son is a student 
at the Hotchkiss School ; F. W. Greene's son has taken high rank 
in the Middletown High School, and will enter Amherst in 1908; 
Stoddard has a son and daughter in the University of California. 



240 CLASS OF l882. 

Dr. F. A. Bancroft has been for a number of years collecting- 
material for a work upon the South. The Times-Democrat of 
New Orleans May 5, 1902, contained a long notice of him, begin- 
ning as follows : 

"Frederic Bancroft of Washington is in New Orleans. He has 
been visiting the principal cities of the South for the purpose of 
collecting material for a history of the Civil War upon which he 
is now engaged. It is not, however, only data of record that 
Mr. Bancroft is collecting. He is earnestly studying the South- 
ern people, their institutions, and their traditions. He desires to 
write, not only a history of events, but a history that shall show 
the people, their customs, their trend of thought — in a word, the 
nature of the great civilization that existed in the South before 
the outbreak of the war." 



A. F. Odlin has had a distinguished career in the Philippines, 
where he served a number of years as Judge of the Court of 
First Instance. In the edition of August 18, 1901, of Mian, 
there is a long complimentary account, beginning: "Don Arturo 
F. Odlin, es hombre de unos 40 afios proximamente." At a ban- 
quet given in his honor in Manila, April 25, 1902, Judge Odlin 
received an ovation. The Manila Times reported that he was at 
his best, and kept the tables in a roar with his inexhaustible fund 
of Lincoln-like stories. In expressing his appreciation of the 
honor done him, Judge Odlin said it was the fourth happiest 
event of his life. The first, he said, was when he married 
(cheers) ; the second, when he was appointed Attorney-General 
of Porto Rico ; the third, when he received his appointment as 
Judge of one of the Courts of First Instance from "that great 
and good man, Judge Taft. God bless him!" (Cheers.) The 
company immediately rose to its feet and a toast was drunk to 
the absent governor. "The fourth," continued Judge Odlin, "is 
the honor done me to-night." 

When Judge Odlin was in Manila he must have had a merry 
time rendering a decision on a gambling case. The decision 
fairly bubbles with humor. It seems that a man (the plaintiff) 
brought replevin for a pony, native gig (or calesa) and harness, 
which he alleged were his property and which the defendant 
wrongfully took from him. The evidence showed that the plain- 
tiff arranged for a raffle at which the holder of the ticket bearing 
the number last drawn should be the winner of the property. 
It was conceded that this raffle was illegal and void, having been 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 241 

prohibited by an ordinance of the city. The defendant held the 
number last drawn, and in good faith supposing himself to be 
the winner, and therefore the owner, entered the calesa and pro- 
ceeded to drive away. Just about the time this was taking place 
it was discovered that one number was outside the box and had 
never been drawn. Hence the suit. The Judge quoted authori- 
ties and brought in supposed cases. After a reference to a 
ladies' progressive euchre party, which threw light on the whole 
question, the Judge said : 

"Again let us assume (purely as an illustration) that in a poker 
game the Major should exhibit four sevens and, exultingly con- 
fident, gather in the reds, whites, and blues (by the way, we now 
know why poker is called our national game), and while receiv- 
ing the congratulations of the Colonel and the Lieutenant, the 
Captain should, for the first time, discover that his three eight 
spots absolutely destroyed his chance of winning because, for- 
sooth, there were only fifty-one cards in the deck, the missing 
card being the eight of clubs. Would a Court of Justice enter- 
tain a suit for the restoration to the Captain of such a sum as he 
has invested ? I am unable to answer this question in the affirma- 
tive. Adopting the views of the distinguished Chief Justice of 
North Carolina (115 H. C. 458), I believe public policy is best 
subserved by leaving both parties where their illegal conduct has 
placed them." 



Most Americans in public life get a good many newspaper 
knocks. Governor Proctor is no exception. His campaigns have 
been fairly conducted; yet he has had to stand a great deal of 
abuse. The State of Vermont has relegated to the dim distance 
all this unfair prattle and has honored him with her highest 
office. A former Governor of the State writes of Mr. Proctor: 
"I do not know another private industry which has practically 
displayed so great solicitude for the well-being of its employes. 
In all that goes to make the conditions of life pleasant and 
profitable — in their neat homes, their schools, their churches, their 
free library, their free hospital and those many public enter- 
prises which are unique to the village of Proctor — that com- 
munity from every point of view is an ideal one. Though a 
village of 2,000 people of many nationalities and clustered about 
shops and quarries, I do not know another village in the State 
of Vermont which is its equal in orderliness, observance of the 
Sabbath, and high moral tone." A visitor to Proctor may readily 
confirm this statement. 

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242 CLASS OF l882. 

Among - our public men, Jerome has perhaps been most in the 
lime-light. His fight for decency in the government of New 
York City will long be remembered. Opposed by both political 
parties, with no "machine" to rely upon he carried out his wonder- 
ful campaign and New York was his. Contributions to his cam- 
paign fund came from all levels in society; and among his 
bushels of congratulatory letters were many from the leading 
men not only of this country but of the world. 



Concerning Rev. Dr. Mills : — His work in Cleveland included 
the erection of an "institutional" church at a cost of $160,000. 
In his fourteen years of ministry the church membership 
increased from 300 to 1,050; there were 1,000 in the Sunday 
School, and the many ministries of the church were crowned 
with success. Ninety thousand dollars was added to the endow- 
ment fund of the church. In St. Louis he is engaged in a similar 
work, and it is interesting to note that the church has raised 
more money than is necessary ($225,000) to complete their new 
house of worship. 



Nason's work as consulting mining engineer takes him away 
from home a good part of every year. His leisure has been 
occupied in scientific writings and also in the writing of novels 
of western life — a subject in which he is quite at home. His 
three novels, "To the End of the Trail," "The Blue Goose," "The 
Vision of Elijah Berl," have all received very flattering press 
notices. 

In the death of his wife last year Nason experienced an over- 
whelming loss. Mrs. Nason had had large responsibilities and 
duties during her husband's periods of absence from home, and 
at the same time had maintained a leadership in the work of her 
church and town. On the day of the funeral from the old 
church in West Haven, the town paid a deserving tribute to her 
memory by half-masting the flag on the old green. As far as 
is known, no other daughter of the old town has ever received 
such honor. 



Draper is evidently one of the leading men at the Cananea 
mines. He had intended that his memoirs, like those of Tally- 
rand, should not be published until one hundred years after his 
death ; but the chance to go down to posterity in such dis- 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 243 

tinguished company as the Class of '82 changed his mind. Per- 
haps the fact that he quelled a race-riot last year, in which two 
of his superiors were shot, assisted him in this determination. 
At one time in his career he says that his stomach began to 
trouble him and he was at his home in Canandaigua, N. Y., for 
a number of years "doing nothing but preparing to meet my God, 
which encounter was expected any day." The fact that he 
pulled through at all the doctor attributed to the exemplary life 
he had led in college. He is now completely restored and is in 
the saddle every day. 



A Class Secretary's life is not always a happy one. One mem- 
ber wrote that — (mentioning a class) at its recent reunion had 
imported a bartender, with all the accompanying paraphernalia, 
and he prayed that we might be spared such disgrace. Another, 
who likes an occasional high-ball, wrote that our class banquets 
were the "slowest ever," and he suggested that we have our next 
in the chapel or church. 



In the report of the Dean of Yale College for 1907 it is stated 
that no school equalled the record of the New Haven High 
School in the results of the entrance examinations, as shown by 
the awards of the Chamberlain and the Galpin Prizes, which are 
for the best examinations in Greek and Latin, respectively. 
During twenty years the candidates from the New Haven High 
School have won either a prize or honorable mention eighteen 
times. 



Resolutions Adopted by the South Congregational Church 

upon Acceptance of the Resignation of its 

Pastor, Rev. George A. Hall. 

Although we say that Mr. Hall's ministry among us is soon 
to close, yet in another and very important sense his work in the 
South Church and in the community is far from finished. His 
earnest and sincere labors in helping the young people and the 
children of the society in such a variety of ways will prove to be 
seed sown, which will in the future continue to bear good fruit. 

His sympathetic ministrations in times of trouble, sickness, and 
death will live long in the memories of a great many people in 
our town; and his good cheer, courage, uniform courtesy, and 



244 CLASS OF l882. 

good will, surely will be a power for many years to come ; and 
an inspiration and incentive to lives of high thinking and pure 
living; the influence of which we cannot measure in years of 
duration or extent of influence upon individuals, families, or 
the community at large. 

For twenty years, continually and cheerfully, and always will- 
ingly, he has served all those who have called upon him in times 
of joy or grief ; ever with a broad and honest charity, and with 
a fine sense of the propriety of his word of sympathy or of good 
cheer, to the time when, and the place where, they have been 
offered. 

We are devoutly thankful for this long pastorate ; for these 
twenty years of uninterrupted labor among us. 

It is a high tribute of personal fitness and worth that the 
relations of pastor and people have been so harmonious and 
delightful during all these years. Here he began his active 
ministry; here he established a home, the tender associations of 
which will always be linked with the life of this church and 
community. Truly his life in many ways has become strongly 
interwoven with ours and ours with his. 

The same consecrated tact, that in his own parish carried com- 
fort to the sorrowing and joy to the glad of heart, has made him 
a quiet power in the community at large. Men of every creed, 
of every nationality, have felt the sympathy and inspiration of 
one who loves his brother man. 

Mr. Hall has shirked no civic duty. In earlier years he was 
a member of the school board, and at no time since has he lost 
interest in the public schools or relaxed his efforts in their 
behalf. He has always been active in the temperance work of the 
town; as a member of the Board of Trade, he has spoken at 
its meetings, and lent his influence to its schemes for local 
improvement. Above all, his voice in the pulpit, fearless and 
timely, has prompted much of the interest in public affairs. 

Yet the work of church and community have not absorbed the 
energies of our faithful pastor. In the Conference he has found 
an honored place ; he has been an inspiration to the Essex Con- 
gregational Club ; and during his long secretaryship he has ren- 
dered valuable service, fully appreciated by his co-laborers, who, 
alone, knew how much work the position entailed. 

These fine Christian ministrations have served continually to 
broaden and enrich his life through all the years he has been 
with us ; and although twenty years is a large part of the time 
allotted to most professional men for active service, yet it is 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 245 

safe to say that there is not an individual in Peabody who has 
known his life and work, who would not honestly and earnestly 
wish that he might continue in his good work; or who does 
not, now that the change has come, wish him the highest and best 
in life, both for himself and his family, in whatever field of 
effort his remaining years may be spent. 

f Willard W. Woodman, 

Committee of the Church ■{ Horace K. Foster, 

^ Marion Barrows Crehore. 

Peabody, March 2, 1906. 

The ecclesiastical council convened to review the action of 
the church regarding the resignation of the pastor, voted to 
approve the action of the church and adopted the following 
resolution : — 

In coming to this decision the council would record its 
appreciation of this notable pastorate extending through a score 
of years, in which our Brother has happily exemplified the ideal 
ministry of these modern times. 

Coming to his important charge in early manhood and giving 
without stint of his increasing strength, wisdom and experience, 
he has steadily grown in the confidence, esteem and affection of 
both Church and Parish, who unwillingly now consent to this 
separation. 

As a clear, careful, thoughtful and inspiring preacher, he has 
ably filled this pulpit. He has well and wisely developed the 
benevolences of the church and secured needed and effective 
improvements in its property. In the homes of his congregation 
he has been a faithful, sympathetic and welcome visitor. Among 
the youth he has been as one of their own number, and the aged 
have rejoiced in his ministry, while all classes have delighted to 
call him their Pastor, and his influence as a Christian citizen, 
both in the town and in this whole region, has been positive and 
valued. 

To part with such a leader is cause for deep regret, not only 
locally but among the whole sisterhood of our churches which 
have come to depend upon his counsel and help. 

We bespeak for him, after a much-needed season of rest and 
recruiting, many years of effective labor somewhere in the wide 
fields of our denominational activities. 

For this church we implore the blessing of Heaven, in the 
faith that having so much of grace, prosperity and harmony, to 
them the more shall be given. 



246 CLASS OF 1882. 

In the Congregationalist of August 24, 1907, there is an appre- 
ciative letter concerning- Rouse and his work at Appleton. The 
writer says : 

"We say in Wisconsin 'Rouse of Appleton.' It is the familiar 
way we have with some of our ministers. With others who have 
been longer in the State we are more formal, and do not associate 
them so closely with any locality. But the Appleton Church is of 
such a character that it makes its minister a man of mark from 
the moment he assumes the reins of leadership; and its pastor 
for the past eight years is the kind of man who both encourages 
familiarity and commands respect. . . The church has steadily 
gained in numbers under Mr. Rouse's administration, until it is 
almost, if not quite, the largest in the State ; and it has been 
growing all the time in substantial churchly character. . . We 
shall be lonely in Wisconsin without Rouse of Appleton. He 
seemed exactly to fit his place and to find his successor will be 
no easy task. Omaha will be a challenge to resources not yet 
called largely into action ; but we have confidence that he will 
carry the new and heavier burden with such masterly ease that 
he will always seem to possess 'a constant freshness for all 
needed things.' " 



Bliss writes : — "Give my love to all and tell them that it's high 
time they made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land and visited Bey- 
rout en route. In fact they can leave out the Holy Land but they 
mustn't pass Beyrout by. Let 'em all come — with wives and 
children and grandchildren ; lots of room and lots of welcome. 
I promise not to bore them talking about the Syrian Protestant 
College. We have compulsory service, but they needn't attend. 
We have lots of Arabic courses, but they needn't study them. 
We have delicious oranges and grapes and apricots, but they 
needn't eat them. We have golf and tennis, but they needn't 
play them. We have horses, but they needn't ride 'em. They can 
just loaf and bask in the Syrian sun and invite their souls in 
true Walt Whitmanesque fashion. Only let 'em come !" 



One member of the class had the degree of D.D. offered him — 
for $25. As he states in a letter, he kept the money and pro- 
poses to use it in entertaining his classmates. His address will 
be given upon application. 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 247 

"Dr. Hitchcock was a member of the executive committee of 
the Massachusetts Home Missionary Society, where his insight 
and excellent judgment were highly prized. He was particularly 
active in connection with the City Missionary Society of Worces- 
ter, and during 1906 was president of the Congregational 
Club. His interest in the foreign populations was keen, and he 
made the Finns of Worcester at home in the chapel of Central 
Church, where they held services regularly. Few men of his 
years have given more convincing proof of their qualifications for 
the modern Christian ministry ; and few have left the stamp of 
their personal influence upon so many lives. Dr. Hitchcock 
illustrated nobly, both in public and private life, that definition 
of Grace which makes it consist in will going out spontaneously 
to the common service." — The Con pre nationalist. 



From the Rochelle (111.) Herald, November 12, 1891 : "The 
organization of the Ogle County Temperance League is due to 
the direct efforts of Rev. C. W. Loomis of Stillman Valley, more 
than to any other man, for through his persevering labors the 
people of the various towns of the county were first interested 
and enlisted in the movement. Of course he had good home 
backing, but he did the necessary pioneer work, and if this 
organization does not accomplish all that is expected of it, it 
will not be because he did not plan and labor wisely." 



Hitchcock's thesis for his doctor's degree from Clark Uni- 
versity is entitled "The Psychology of Jesus," and is to appear 
from the Pilgrim Press about February first. President G. 
Stanley Hall of Clark University is to write the introduction. 



The work of Lovell is almost beyond the pale of a layman's 
comprehension. Unsuccessful in getting the information he 
desired from the Bureau of Entomology at Washington, he has 
been obliged, in his study of Bees, to consult a widely scattered 
literature, to make large and expensive collections of specimens, 
to employ special collectors, and to devote many days to personal 
work in the field. The completion of his series of monographs 
has been delayed by the necessity of getting descriptions and 



248' CLASS OF 1882. 

figures of types from the British Museum ; but the forthcoming 
publication of the remaining numbers will place Mr. Lovell as 
authority in this field of work. 



Whiting's work in the field of otology has attracted wide atten- 
tion in the medical world. His latest work on "The Modern 
Mastoid Operation," while well received by specialists, is a very 
expensive work, owing to the care given to the cuts, press-work, 
and binding ; but it will probably not be one of the "six best sel- 
lers" on this account. Perhaps his most remarkable feat was the 
reading of a paper before the New York Academy of Medicine, 
and the presentation of three living cases, upon whom he had 
operated for sinus thrombosis. That was regarded by practi- 
tioners as a wonderful display of surgical skill. 



Several members of the class attended a missionary concert 
last summer, given in Stearns' church in Norfolk, Conn. Now 
a missionary concert does not overwhelmingly appeal to at least 
one of the number. But this one was different. The old church 
on the green was brilliant within and without with specially 
arranged electric lights; there was a profusion of flowers of 
rare sort; a dense throng of ladies and gentlemen in evening 
dress waited upon the church steps half an hour for the doors 
to open ; the church, even the space about the pulpit, was crowded. 
And for the concert we heard Mme. Hissam De Moss, Mme. 
Schumann-Heink, Dethier, probably the most skillful organist 
in this country, and half a dozen men well known to the musical 
world. This was given us for the nominal sum of fifty cents ; 
but the expenses, all borne by a lady of the church, must have 
run up to several thousand dollars. 



A number of years ago an elderly lady of Hartford was wheel- 
ing a youngster in a baby carriage. Chance took her past the 
celebrated Charter Oak; at that moment the ancient tree fell, 
burying the baby carriage and its occupant in a mass of branches 
that nearly smothered the boy. He was at last extricated, safe 
and sound; and even to-day George Reed relates the wonderful 
experience that his grandmother and he had on that memorable 
day. 



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The Class of '82 has never had sufficient credit for its efforts, 
successful at last, in bringing about the abolishing of fences 
in Amherst. It is not too late to make a record. Early in June 
of our Freshman year, it was determined that the fences must go 
and that their exit could not be more appropriately hastened than 
by a fire on the Campus. The aid of some '81 men was readily 
obtained and shortly, just before midnight, there was accumulated 
back of the Chapel a huge pile of garden gates. Kerosene was 
at hand and the fire began. Faculty Street had been stripped 
clean, and not a gate remained. It was inevitable that some of the 
owners should have been attracted by the flames. But when the 
old Doctor suddenly appeared and cried out, "Gentlemen!" with 
the accent on the "men," the sight that followed was such that it 
will never be effaced from those who were fortunate enough to 
see it. There was a rapidly widening circle of coattails and boot- 
heels, and "Old Doc" was left alone. When Faculty Street found 
that the absence of gates was really an advantage, not only were 
they not replaced but the fences went too. In short, when 
anyone now comments favorably on the beautiful lawn effects, 
the only reply is, '"82 did it." 



The first recognition of the Class of '82 as being anything 
more than Freshmen was on the day following election day in 
November, 1878. After nearly thirty years, it matters little 
what were the issues, it is to be presumed they were highly moral 
and the results were satisfactory. There was among the candi- 
dates one who lived near Freshman River and the sawmill. He 
was so delighted at his success that he sent word to the College 
that he would like to be congratulated, and we were only too glad 
to accommodate him. A procession of four companies was 
formed, torches and transparencies were obtained, and the line 
of march was taken toward Freshman River. Doughnuts, 
cheese, and coffee awaited us, and then we filed out, stopping to 
shake hands with the successful candidate. For most of us it 
was our first political experience, and on the mind of one at 
least the expression on the official's face, when he realized the 
damage to his house and furniture by this incursion of four 
hundred men, made a lasting impression. The evening closed 
with a meeting in College Hall at which President Seelye and 
Rev. Dr. Hitchcock of New York made proper political speeches. 



25° CLASS OF 1882. 

A BIG BLAZE AT AMHERST. 

Phoenix Block Burned to the Ground this Morning. 
Loss Heavy. 

(Special Dispatch to the Union.) 
Amherst, Tuesday, April 5, 1881. — A fire broke out at about 
half-past twelve, this morning, in the upper story of Phoenix 
Block at Amherst, which resulted in its total destruction. It was 
a large, three-story, brick block, fronting on the common, and 
extending from the corner opposite the new Amherst House 
down Phoenix Row to Kellogg's block. The lower floor was 
occupied by Henry Adams's drug store, Sloan's shoe store, E. A. 
Thomas's dry goods store, and J. W. Waite and Sons' hat store. 
The second floor contained the barber shop of J. J. Fry, the 
office of Judge Thomas, M. L. Merritt's locksmith shop and 
Cook's billiard hall. The third floor was occupied by the Delta 
Kappa Epsilon society, with the rooms of members and their 
society hall. These rooms were fitted up by them about i860 
and have been occupied by them ever since. The fire originated 
in a student's room on the third floor, and soon gained such head- 
way that it was impossible to stay it. The loss will be heavy, but 
in most cases will be covered by insurance. 



THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION 
STATE OF VERMONT. 

BY 

Fletcher D. Proctor, Governor. 

A Proclamation. 

The early settlers of New England after the harvest had been 

gathered, were moved to appoint a day on which to come together 

and give united thanks to God for His protecting care and 

beneficent providence. 

Each succeeding generation has deemed it wise and good to 
follow the reverent example of these noble colonists. 

Heartily endorsing this custom and firmly believing in the 
religious intent of this observance I name 

Thursday, the Twenty-Eighth Day 

of November current 

A Day of Remembrances and Thanksgiving 

for the people of this State. 



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Let not the day be given over wholly to amusements and social 
pleasures, but let us be mindful of the lofty purpose of its 
institution. By public worship and private devotions let us on 
this day express our especial recognition of our dependence upon 
God, and our sincere gratitude for His Divine favor. 

For the opportunity to labor and the products of field, mill, 
and shop; for the love of education, and the diffusion of learn- 
ing; for the growing respect for law, and demand for its faith- 
ful administration ; and for that strong, sensitive religious spirit 
which keeps us in pursuit of the ideals of the fathers, begets a 
lively hope in men's hearts, and illumines and gives faith for 
the future — let our thanksgiving be made. 

But let us prove our gratitude and make it real before all 
men by uniting with our rejoicing a spirit of meekness and a 
live and active sympathy for them that be in want or misfortune. 
In these and other fitting ways let us commend to others, 
establish firmer in our own lives and justify and commit to our 
children our patriotism, reverence, and high and noble purposes 
of manhood. 

Given under my hand and the seal of the 

State this twelfth day of November, in the 

[Seal] year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred 

seven, and of the independence of the United 

States the one hundred thirty-second. 

Fletcher D. Proctor. 
By the Governor ; 

Benjamin Williams, Jr., 

Secretary of Civil and Military Affairs. 



Savage writes: — "I am proud of my Normal School of 
Physical Education, and believe it is doing a great and valuable 
work. We have over fifty students in the course at present and 
the school is growing steadily and turning out the best teachers 
in this business. I have enjoyed all the honors the physical 
educators can offer me except retirement on the honorary list for 
old age. I thoroughly enjoy my chosen life work and though not 
as profitable as many other branches of medicine it is certainly 
healthful, pleasing, and satisfactory in results obtained. I have 
retired from the active firing line of general gymnastics and 
am devoting my entire time to the medical and corrective aspects 
of exercise. When the boys break down from hard work (?), 



252 CLASS OF 1882. 

high living, and following the pace that kills, tell them to advise 
with the slower going Savage and take a little time out for 
renewing their youthful vigor." 



AN EXPERIMENT IN CORPORATION STORES. 
By Frank C. Partridge in The Vcrmonter, May, 1905. 

About two years ago Herr Krupp, the head of the great Krupp 
Company in Germany, died, and at that time in one of the articles 
descriptive of the industrial betterment features of the Krupp 
business mention was made of the division of the profits of its 
stores among its employes. This came to the attention of the 
management of the Vermont Marble Company, and that com- 
pany, upon lines which it devised to fit its own case, began May 
1, 1903, the experiment in question. At that time the company 
announced that it proposed to divide among its employes accord- 
ing to their trade at each store the entire profits of that store. 
The management of the store was continued in the hands of 
the company. A representative committee, however, of five 
employes was appointed for each of the stores to take a consulta- 
tive part in its management and particularly to supervise and 
audit the settlement of its business and the distribution of its 
profits at the end of the year. These committees are from time 
to time consulted and suggestions are sought from them as to 
changes or improvements which would help the service but the 
real responsibility for the management of the stores has con- 
tinued as before in the company, which advances all of the 
money required for their business and through its executive 
officers directs their general policy. The purpose has been to 
continue to keep the prices of the stores as low as possible and 
assure a reasonable margin of profit. 

The total sales for the first eight months, that is from May 1, 
1903, to January 1, 1904, were $251,620.11, of which $179,716.38 
were sales to employes of the company, and the balance, $71,- 
903.73, were sales to non-employes. The profits from the busi- 
ness of the three stores including both its sales to employes and 
non-employes were for the same period $16,296, or 6.4 per cent, 
on their entire sales. That gave the employes trading at the 
Proctor store a dividend of ten per cent, upon their purchases, 
those trading at the West Rutland store a dividend of nine per 
cent., and those at the Center Rutland store a dividend of six per 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 2 53 

cent., an average dividend to employes of over nine per cent. 
These dividends were paid to the employes in January, 1904, by 
bank check. 

During the year 1904 the total sales at the three stores for 
the whole year were $408,668.90, of which $300,292.37 was to 
employes of the company, and the balance or $108,376.53 was to 
non-employes. The profits of the stores were for the year 
$27,331.44 or 6.7 per cent, upon their total sales, which gave a 
dividend to the employes at the Proctor store of ten per cent, on 
the amount of their purchases, to those at Center Rutland nine 
per cent., and to those at West Rutland seven per cent., an 
average of over nine per cent. ; and these dividends were paid 
to the employes in cash in the month of January, 1905. With 
the dividend there has been delivered both years to each trading 
employe a printed statement, signed by the respective committees, 
showing the details of the business done and the settlement of 
the same, with the amount of his purchases and dividend filled in. 

Under the present arrangement the employes receive their 
goods at less than their original cost plus their proportion of the 
expense of the stores, as they get back not only the profit on their 
own goods but the profit on sales made to non-employes. 



"Walter S. UfTord has resigned the general secretaryship of 
the Federated Charities of Baltimore on account of his health and 
the necessity of taking a considerable period for recuperation. 
Mr. Ufford came to Baltimore to become the general secretary 
in October, 1902. He had been on the staff of the State Board 
of Charities of New York and had had much experience in 
practical charity work. He took hold of the position just after 
the Association for the Improvement of the Condition of the 
Poor and the Charity Organization Society had agreed upon a ten- 
tative scheme of federation. The first step in this federation was 
his employment as joint general secretary. Since then the federa- 
tion has progressed by gradual steps and now the central office 
force and the force in each district represent both societies. This 
federation has resulted in economy of work and more thorough 
treatment of beneficiaries. Among other things, a night applica- 
tion bureau has been opened during the winter months. A year 
after Mr. Ufford's arrival the Federated Charities occupied their 
joint building, 101 W. Saratoga street, and since then several new 
neighborhood centers have been established. During Mr. 



254 CLASS OF 1882. 

Ufford's incumbency two exceptional emergencies occurred 
requiring the administration of relief on an unusually large scale 
for the benefit of those who were victims of sudden disaster. The 
causes of these emergencies were the tornado which struck North- 
east Baltimore in 1903 and the great fire in 1904. On both occa- 
sions the Federated Charities exercised a leading influence in the 
successful organization of relief work on sound principles. 
During the same period the Federated Charities have also been 
influential, together with other philanthropic agencies, in obtain- 
ing important legislation, such as the school attendance law, the 
child labor law and the non-support law. One of the most 
important undertakings of the Federated Charities, to which Mr. 
Ufford has contributed very largely by his experience and labor, 
has been the preparation of the report on the housing conditions 
of Baltimore referred to in Charities and The Commons for 
May 4. It is expected that this report will result in important 
amendments to the building code of Baltimore which will improve 
general conditions throughout the city." — Charities and The 
Commons, May 18, 1907. 

% t- * * 

On his resignation Dr. Ufford received the following letter : — 
Mr. Walter S. Ufford, Baltimore, Md. ' 

Dear Mr. Ufford: — At a joint meeting of the Charity Organi- 
zation Society and the Association for the Improvement of the 
Condition of the Poor, held on the twelfth of November, 1906, 
we were all saddened by the reading of your letter of resignation 
as our Secretary, by the statement of the reason therefor, and by 
the conviction that we had, under the circumstances, no choice 
but to accept it. 

All who were present realized that our work is about to suffer, 
in your departure from us, a loss which it will be difficult, if not 
impossible, to make good; and many of us felt that we were also 
losing a friend of that true, sincere type, the possession of one 
or two of whom makes life worth the living. 

One after another arose and put into speech the tribute to 
your character and services which all felt and which all would 
have been glad individually to utter had time allowed. 1 

Finally, by a unanimous vote, we, the President of the Charity 
Organization Society, the President of the Association for the 
Improvement of the Condition of the Poor, and the Chairman 
of the Board of Managers of the Charity Organization Society, 
were appointed a committee to convey to you, as well as we are 



AMHERST COLLEGE. 255 

able, the sense of the meeting in regard to your resignation and 
to yourself. 

Much as we should like to have the power fully to express this 
sentiment, we feel unable to do more than suggest by words the 
attitude of the governing boards of these two societies towards 
you. 

Speaking for each member of each board, we appreciate that 
few persons holding a similar position to yours have had to 
face as difficult problems as have during the past years confronted 
you. We are sure that no one ever brought to their solution more 
unselfish zeal, or more untiring industry, combined with unfailing 
tact, broad-minded sympathy, and executive ability. 

We know that you have given a large part of yourself to the 
poor of our city, and that your leaving us will be a loss to those 
of our fellow-citizens who most need help, even greater than it 
will be to us. 

Your personality has a big place in our hearts, and wherever 
you go, and in whatever environment you carry on your work, 
or in whatever place you wait for reinforcement of physical 
strength, our thoughts, our affection, our best wishes will be 
with you. We shall sympathize with you in all that may come to 
you in the way of disappointment. We shall rejoice with you 
in all that you may add to your already large accomplishment. 

And now, having as best we can discharged our duty in con- 
veying to you the sense of the meeting, we sign ourselves, with 
deep regret at the necessity of parting, and with warm personal 
affection, 

Your sincere friends, 

(Signed) Ira Remsen, 

President, Charity Organization 
Society. 

(Signed) Eugene Levering, 

President, Association for the 
Improvement of the Condition of 
the Poor. 

(Signed) Alfred S. Niles, 

Chairman, Board of Managers, 
Charity Organization Society. 
Baltimore, December 17, 1906. 





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